Vamana Purana — Prahlada vs Nara-Narayana, Shloka 4
Prahlada’s Defeat by Nara-Narayana and Victory through Bhakti
ततो विहस्य भगवान् मञ्जरीं कुसुमावृताम् आदाय प्राक्सुवर्णाङ्गीमूर्वोर्बालां विनिर्ममे
tato vihasya bhagavān mañjarīṃ kusumāvṛtām ādāya prāksuvarṇāṅgīmūrvorbālāṃ vinirmame
ನಂತರ ಭಗವಂತನು ನಗುತ್ತಾ ಪುಷ್ಪಾವೃತವಾದ ಮಂಜರಿಯನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು, ತನ್ನ ತೊಡೆಯಿಂದ ಪೂರ್ವದಂತೆ ಸ್ವರ್ಣವರ್ಣ ದೇಹವಿರುವ ಒಂದು ಯುವತಿಯನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿದನು.
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FAQs
The passage frames beauty and desire as arising within cosmic order, not merely as human impulse; the ‘smiling’ creative act suggests that even kāma (desire) has a sanctioned place when integrated with dharma rather than opposed to it.
This aligns most closely with Vaṃśānucarita / mythic account of divine beings (ancillary genealogy/origin of a deity-associated figure), rather than sarga/pratisarga proper; it is a narrative etiological unit explaining a figure’s emergence.
The maiden’s ‘golden-bodied’ form and emergence from the thighs (ūrū) symbolically link desire/attraction to vitality, generation, and embodied power; the flower-cluster imagery encodes śṛṅgāra as a natural, fragrant force that can be shaped by divine will.