Vamana Purana — Harihara Non-Duality, Shloka 54

Harihara Non-Duality and the Revelation of Sadasiva to the Ganas

Devanagari script

तदा निर्धूतपापास्ते समजायन्त पार्षदाः तेष्वेवं धूतपापेषु अभिन्नेषु हरीश्वरः

Transliteration

tadā nirdhūtapāpāste samajāyanta pārṣadāḥ teṣvevaṃ dhūtapāpeṣu abhinneṣu harīśvaraḥ

Translation

そのとき、彼らの罪は払い落とされ、近侍たるパールシャダ（pārṣada）となるにふさわしい者となった。かくして清められ、不二に安住した彼らの中に、ハリ＝イーシュヴァラ（ハリとシヴァの合一なる主）が顕現した。

Speakers

• Narratorial voice describing the devotees’ purification and their becoming divine attendants

Primary Deities

• Harīśvara (Hari-Śiva)
• Viṣṇu
• Śiva

Key Themes

• Purification (pāpa-kṣaya)
• Attainment of divine proximity (pārṣadatva)
• Hari–Hara unity
• Transformative power of knowledge/realization

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What does it mean that they ‘became pārṣadas’?

Pārṣada denotes a deity’s attendant—one admitted into the divine retinue. In Purāṇic idiom it signifies elevated spiritual status and proximity to the deity, often as a fruit of tīrtha-merit and right knowledge.

Is the purification here due to ritual bathing at a tīrtha or due to philosophical insight?

The passage links purification to jñāna and abheda-vision (non-difference). In the Saro-mahātmya setting, tīrtha practice and insight are typically paired: the tīrtha supports inner transformation, and insight consummates it.

Who is Harīśvara in this verse?

Harīśvara is a unitive epithet—Hari (Viṣṇu) and Īśvara (Śiva) understood as one lord. It functions as a theological bridge, affirming that devotion to either culminates in the same supreme reality.