Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 56
Dakṣa’s Progeny, Nṛsiṃha–Varāha Avatāras, and Andhaka’s Defeat
Hari–Hara–Śakti Synthesis
तस्य देवादिदेवस्य विष्णोरमिततेजसः / न हानिमकरोदस्त्रं यथा देवस्य शूलिनः
tasya devādidevasya viṣṇoramitatejasaḥ / na hānimakarodastraṃ yathā devasya śūlinaḥ
देवों के भी देव, अमित तेजस्वी विष्णु के विरुद्ध वह अस्त्र कोई हानि न कर सका, जैसे त्रिशूलधारी देव (शिव) के विरुद्ध भी नहीं कर सका।
Narrator (Purāṇic Sūta/compilers’ narrative voice describing the episode)
Primary Rasa: vira
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
By portraying Viṣṇu as unharmed by any astra, the verse points to the Supreme as untouched by change and injury—an Upaniṣadic trait of the Self (Ātman/Brahman) as inviolable and beyond material causation.
No specific technique is prescribed in this verse; its implication supports Yoga-śāstra themes—steadiness in the Lord’s invincible reality (Īśvara-tattva) as an aid to dhyāna, where the yogin contemplates the Supreme as unaffected (asaṅga/akṣata).
It equates the ineffectiveness of weapons against Viṣṇu with the same truth about Śiva, signaling the Kurma Purāṇa’s non-sectarian synthesis: both are presented as sharing supreme, unassailable divinity.