Kurma Purana — Uttara Bhaga, Shloka 31
Aśauca-vidhi — Rules of Birth/Death Impurity, Sapinda Circles, and Śrāddha Sequence
मातामहानां मरणे त्रिरात्रं स्यादशौचकम् / एकोदकानां मरणे सूतके चैतदेव हि
mātāmahānāṃ maraṇe trirātraṃ syādaśaucakam / ekodakānāṃ maraṇe sūtake caitadeva hi
मातामह-नाना/नानी के निधन पर तीन रातों का अशौच होता है। एकोदक (एक ही जल-तर्पण-परम्परा वाले) संबंधियों की मृत्यु में तथा सूतक (जन्म-अशौच) में भी यही नियम है।
Sūta (narrator) conveying traditional dharma rules as taught in the Kurma Purana discourse
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: karuna
FAQs
This verse is primarily a dharma injunction on aśauca and sūtaka; it does not directly teach Ātman-doctrine, but it frames the embodied social order (varṇāśrama) within which higher knowledge and worship are to be practiced with ritual discipline.
No specific yoga practice is taught in this verse; instead, it supports the purāṇic synthesis where inner sādhana (including Pāśupata-style devotion and restraint) is complemented by outer purity rules governing mourning and birth-impurity.
The verse does not explicitly mention Śiva or Viṣṇu; its contribution is contextual—Kurma Purana integrates devotion and yoga with dharma, presenting ritual order as compatible with the broader Śaiva–Vaiṣṇava spiritual synthesis found elsewhere in the text.