Vamana Purana — Merit of the Vamana Purana, Shloka 14

The Merit of Hearing and Reciting the Vamana Purana (Phalaśruti)

Devanagari script

नमो नमः कारण वामनाय नित्यं यो वदेन्नियतं द्विजः तस्य विष्णुः पदं मोक्षं ददाति सुरपूजितः

Transliteration

namo namaḥ kāraṇa vāmanāya nityaṃ yo vadenniyataṃ dvijaḥ tasya viṣṇuḥ padaṃ mokṣaṃ dadāti surapūjitaḥ

Translation

‘ಕಾರಣಸ್ವರೂಪ ವಾಮನನಿಗೆ ನಮೋ ನಮಃ’—ಎಂದು ನಿತ್ಯ ನಿಯಮದಿಂದ ಉಚ್ಚರಿಸುವ ಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣನಿಗೆ, ದೇವರಿಂದ ಪೂಜಿತನಾದ ವಿಷ್ಣು ಮೋಕ್ಷಪದವನ್ನು ದಯಪಾಲಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ।

Speakers

• Unspecified narrator/teacher presenting a recitable formula and its fruit

Primary Deities

• Vishnu
• Vamana
• Devas

Key Themes

• Stuti (praise)
• Japa/regular recitation
• Mokṣa (liberation)
• Viṣṇu as kāraṇa (ultimate cause)
• Phalaśruti

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

Why is Vāmana called ‘kāraṇa’ (the cause)?

The epithet aligns the avatāra with the supreme Viṣṇu: even when appearing as the ‘dwarf’, he is affirmed as the ultimate metaphysical ground (kāraṇa) from which the cosmos proceeds and by whom it is sustained.

What is the promised result—heaven or liberation?

The verse explicitly states mokṣa-pada, the ‘station of liberation’, which is presented as higher than heavenly merit. The phala is tied to disciplined, regular recitation (niyata, nityam).

Why specify ‘dvija’ as the reciter?

Many Purāṇic phalaśrutis address brāhmaṇas as normative ritual agents and custodians of recitation. In practice, the devotional principle (bhakti expressed through stuti/japa) is the operative core, while ‘dvija’ reflects the text’s social-ritual idiom.