Vamana Purana — Sukeshi's Inquiry into Dharma, Shloka 31
Sukeshi’s Inquiry into Dharma: The Seven Dvipas and the Twenty-One Hells
स ताड्यमानः शिशिरांशुबाणैरवाप पीडां परमां गजेन्द्रः दुष्टश्च वेगात् पयसामधीशं मुहुर्मुहुः पादतलैर्ममर्द
sa tāḍyamānaḥ śiśirāṃśubāṇairavāpa pīḍāṃ paramāṃ gajendraḥ duṣṭaśca vegāt payasāmadhīśaṃ muhurmuhuḥ pādatalairmamarda
शिशिर-किरणों के बाणों से आहत होकर गजेन्द्र ने अत्यन्त पीड़ा पाई; और दुष्ट होकर क्रोध-वेग से वह जलों के अधीश को बार-बार पादतलों से रौंदता रहा।
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FAQs
Pain and humiliation can provoke further cruelty when dominated by tamas/rajas; the verse warns that uncontrolled reaction to suffering multiplies harm and deepens adharma.
Vamśānucarita / narrative episode: a conflict scene illustrating the interplay of devas and powerful beings. It is not cosmogony (sarga) but an embedded legend supporting the text’s broader dharma and tīrtha-oriented teaching.
Varuṇa (waters, restraint, law) being trampled by a raging elephant dramatizes the subjugation of “order and measure” by brute force—an image of chaos overwhelming regulation until higher balance is restored.