Vamana Purana — Shiva's Wedding Procession (Part 1), Shloka 9
Shiva’s Wedding Procession to Kailasa and the Marriage of Girija (Kali)
हर उवाच कश्यपात्रे वारुणेय गाधेय शृणु गौतम् भरद्वाज शृणुष्व त्वमङ्गिरस्त्वं शृणुष्व च
hara uvāca kaśyapātre vāruṇeya gādheya śṛṇu gautam bharadvāja śṛṇuṣva tvamaṅgirastvaṃ śṛṇuṣva ca
Hara bersabda: “Wahai keturunan Kaśyapa, wahai Vāruṇeya, wahai Gādheya, dengarkan; wahai Gautama, dengarkan. Wahai Bharadvāja, engkau dengarkan; dan engkau juga, wahai Aṅgiras, dengarkan.”
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FAQs
Sacred teaching is transmitted through attentive listening (śravaṇa) and through acknowledged lineages; the verse foregrounds disciplined receptivity as the first step of dharma-knowledge.
This is an ākhyāna framing device within the broader Purāṇic narrative—setting up the speakers/recipients before the substantive doctrine or ritual instruction begins.
By calling sages via patronymics and names, Shiva is portrayed as honoring ṛṣi-paramparā; it also signals a harmonized Purāṇic pedagogy where a deity participates in the same disciplined discourse-space as the Vedic seers.