Vamana Purana — Harihara Revelation, Shloka 44
Harihara Revelation and the Kurukshetra Tirtha Cycle: Sthanu in Vishnu and the Sanctification of Saptasarasvata
दत्त्वैकस्य च या कन्या हृत्वान्यस्य प्रदीयते तज्जालस्तनयो ज्ञेयो लोके पौनर्भवो मुने
dattvaikasya ca yā kanyā hṛtvānyasya pradīyate tajjālastanayo jñeyo loke paunarbhavo mune
Wahai resi, bila seorang gadis yang telah diberikan kepada seorang pria kemudian dirampas dan diberikan kepada pria lain, maka putra yang lahir dari persatuan kedua itu dikenal di dunia sebagai ‘paunarbhava’.
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FAQs
A woman is first formally given in marriage to one man, then removed from that marital bond and given to another; the child born from the later union is classified as paunarbhava—reflecting a ‘renewed’ or reassigned marital context.
It metaphorically indicates an entangled or complex marital situation (‘jāla’ = net), emphasizing that the child’s social classification arises from overlapping marital assignments rather than a straightforward first marriage lineage.
In this verse it functions as a legal-social definition (naming a category). Moral evaluation, if any, typically appears elsewhere; here the focus is on how society designates the child for lineage-related purposes.