Śrāddha-Kalpa: Pitṛ-Pūjā and Tithi-Phala (श्राद्धकल्पः पितृपूजा च तिथिफलम्)
स्थानानि देवतानां हि विमानानि पुराणि च । ऋषीणां चाश्रमाश्वचैव बभूवुरसुरैर््वता:,असुरोंने देवताओंके स्थान, विमान, नगर तथा ऋषियोंके आश्रम भी छीन लिये थे
sthānāni devatānāṃ hi vimānāni purāṇi ca | ṛṣīṇāṃ cāśramāś caiva babhūvur asurair hṛtāḥ ||
ビーシュマは語った。「アスラたちは、神々の聖なる住処さえも—古の天の車(ヴィマーナ)と聖都—を奪い、さらに仙賢(リシ)たちの庵(アーシュラマ)までも占拠したのである。」この一節は、アダルマが暴力のみならず、礼拝と苦行(タパス)、そして宇宙の秩序を護るために聖別された場を簒奪し汚すことによっても現れるのだと示している。
भीष्म उवाच
Adharma is shown as the violation of what is sacred: when hostile powers seize divine abodes and sages’ hermitages, they disrupt worship, austerity, and the moral-spiritual foundations that sustain order. Protecting sanctified institutions and spaces is therefore part of upholding dharma.
Bhishma describes a period of Asuric ascendancy in which the Asuras overpower the gods and extend their domination to holy domains—taking the gods’ abodes and ancient vimānas and even occupying the hermitages of the ṛṣis—signaling a widespread collapse of rightful order.