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Vamana Purana — Birth of Skanda (Kartikeya), Shloka 77

The Birth and Consecration of Skanda (Kartikeya) at Kurukshetra

Devanagari script

ऐरावत्याश्चतुर्द्दष्ट्रः षोडशाक्षो वितस्तया मार्जारं सौशिकी प्रादात् क्रथक्रौञ्चौ च गौतमी

Transliteration

airāvatyāścaturddaṣṭraḥ ṣoḍaśākṣo vitastayā mārjāraṃ sauśikī prādāt krathakrauñcau ca gautamī

Translation

アイラーヴァティー（Airāvatī）からはチャトゥルダシュトラ（Caturdaṣṭra）が生じ、ヴィタスター（Vitastā）からはショーダシャークシャ（Ṣoḍaśākṣa）が生じた。サウシキー（Sauśikī）はマールジャーラ（Mārjāra）を生み、ガウタミー（Gautamī）はクラタ（Kratha）とクラウンチャ（Krauñca）を生んだ。

Word by Word

airāvatyāḥof Airāvatī

caturdaṣṭraḥCaturdaṣṭra (four-tusked; name)

ṣoḍaśākṣaḥṢoḍaśākṣa (sixteen-eyed; name)

vitastayāby Vitastā

mārjārama cat / Mārjāra (name)

sauśikīSauśikī (name)

prādātgave

kratha-krauñcauKratha and Krauñca (two names)

caand

gautamīGautamī (name)

Speakers

Narrator (Purāṇic voice) describing tīrtha-associated manifestations (speaker not explicit in the given excerpt).

Key Themes

Tīrtha Mahimā (power of sacred rivers)Sacred geography as generative/cosmogonic agencyMythic etiology of named beings linked to rivers

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

Are these ‘gifts’ (prādāt) meant as literal donations or as mythic births/manifestations?

In this catalogue-style tīrtha passage, prādāt functions as ‘brought forth/produced’—an etiological mapping where rivers are treated as potent sources that manifest named beings, lineages, or emblematic figures.

Why do rivers ‘produce’ beings with unusual epithets like ‘four-tusked’ or ‘sixteen-eyed’?

Such epithets mark extraordinary, often semi-divine or symbolic entities. The text uses striking descriptors to signal the supernormal potency of the tīrtha and to make the geography memorable through mythic indexing.

What is the geographical significance of listing Airāvatī, Vitastā, Sauśikī, and Gautamī together?

The verse participates in a broader Purāṇic technique: stitching a pan-Indic sacred map by naming multiple rivers and attaching mythic ‘outputs’ to each, thereby sacralizing travel routes and regional waters through narrative association.