Vamana Purana — Slaying of Raktabija, Shloka 15
The Slaying of Raktabīja and Niśumbha–Śumbha; the Manifestation of the Mātṛkās and the Devas’ Hymn
यजन्तु ब्राह्मणाद्यामी वर्णा यज्ञांश्च साम्प्रतम् नोचेद् बलावलेपेन भवन्तो योद्धुमिच्छथ
yajantu brāhmaṇādyāmī varṇā yajñāṃśca sāmpratam noced balāvalepena bhavanto yoddhumicchatha
「いまはブラーフマナをはじめとする諸ヴァルナが、ヤジュニャ（祭祀）と供犠の儀礼を執り行うがよい。さもなくば、力への驕りによって汝らが戦いを望むなら……」
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FAQs
Purāṇic theology links political/cosmic stability to yajña and dharma. Asura domination is portrayed as disrupting sacrificial order; Devī’s victory is framed as restoring ritual and social norms that sustain the worlds.
It reflects the Purāṇic varṇa–yajña paradigm: society’s ordered duties are presented as a religious technology for maintaining ṛta/dharma. Scholarly reading treats it as a normative voice of the text’s milieu rather than a universal sociological description.
It marks the asuras’ motive as hubris rather than justice, contrasting dharmic submission (allowing yajña to resume) with adharma-driven violence, thereby legitimizing the coming divine intervention.