Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 43
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
एवं कृत्वा कालरूपं त्रिनेत्रो यज्ञं क्रोधान्मार्गराजघान विद्धश्चासौ वेदनाबुद्धिमुक्तः खे संतस्थौ तारकाभिश्चिताङ्गः
evaṃ kṛtvā kālarūpaṃ trinetro yajñaṃ krodhānmārgarājaghāna viddhaścāsau vedanābuddhimuktaḥ khe saṃtasthau tārakābhiścitāṅgaḥ
かくして三眼の御方は時の姿（kālarūpa）を取り、憤怒によってヤジュニャ—マールガラージャを屠る者—を打ち倒した。貫かれながらも、痛みと常の意識を離れ、星々により印され/配された身をもって虚空にとどまった。
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FAQs
Personified ‘Yajña’ being struck by the ‘three-eyed’ power warns that ritual (yajña) without right orientation—without humility, truth, or proper cosmic alignment—can be disrupted by higher principles (kāla, īśvara). It also implies that even ‘sacrifice’ is not above moral-cosmic governance.
This is ancillary mythic material supporting cosmological mapping (Sarga) by giving a narrative etiology for a celestial phenomenon (abiding ‘in the sky’ with stars). It is not primarily Vaṃśa/Manvantara.
Śiva as kālarūpa represents time’s consuming sovereignty; the ‘sky’ and ‘star-marked body’ language reads like a mythic encoding of a constellation/asterism origin story—turning a theological event into a celestial signpost.