Vamana Purana — Caturmasya Observances, Shloka 39
The Cāturmāsya Observances and the Sleeping–Awakening Cycle of the Gods (Hari–Hara Worship)
स भानुना तदा दृष्टः क्रोधाध्मातेन चत्रुषा निपपाताम्बराद् भ्रष्टः क्षीणपुण्य इव ग्रहः
sa bhānunā tadā dṛṣṭaḥ krodhādhmātena catruṣā nipapātāmbarād bhraṣṭaḥ kṣīṇapuṇya iva grahaḥ
वह तब भानु को दिखाई पड़ा—क्रोध से फूली हुई आँखों वाला; आकाश से गिरकर वह ऐसे धड़ाम से गिरा जैसे पुण्य क्षीण होने पर कोई ग्रह गिर पड़े।
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FAQs
Status (even ‘celestial’ stature) is unstable when puṇya is exhausted; anger further distorts perception and accelerates decline—an ethical warning against krodha and a reminder of karmic causality.
Vamśānucarita-style episodic narration with didactic karmic simile; it is not cosmological creation but moralized ‘itihāsa-like’ storytelling within the Purāṇa.
The ‘planet fallen due to depleted merit’ simile maps cosmic order onto moral order: celestial regularity corresponds to dharma/puṇya, while deviation (fall) signifies adharma or merit-loss.