Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 3
Madhu–Kaiṭabha, Nārāyaṇa’s Yoga-Nidrā, Rudra’s Manifestation, and the Aṣṭamūrti–Trimūrti Teaching
क्रोधेन महताविष्टौ महापर्वतविग्रहौ / कर्णान्तरसमुद्भूतौ देवदेवस्य शार्ङ्गिणः
krodhena mahatāviṣṭau mahāparvatavigrahau / karṇāntarasamudbhūtau devadevasya śārṅgiṇaḥ
അവർ മഹാക്രോധത്തിൽ ആവിഷ്ടരായി, മഹാപർവ്വതങ്ങളെപ്പോലെയുള്ള ദേഹമുള്ളവർ; ദേവദേവനായ ശാർങ്ഗധാരിയായ പ്രഭുവിന്റെ കർണ്ണഗുഹയുടെ അന്തരത്തിൽ നിന്നാണ് അവർ ഉദ്ഭവിച്ചത്.
Sūta (narrator) recounting the Purāṇic episode to the sages (Naimiṣāraṇya frame)
Primary Rasa: raudra
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
It implies that even fierce, world-shaking forces can arise within the sphere of the Supreme Lord; the Self remains sovereign, the source in which opposites like calm and wrath appear without diminishing transcendence.
No direct practice is prescribed in this verse; it functions as mythic groundwork. In the Kurma Purana’s broader arc, such episodes motivate later disciplines—self-mastery over krodha (anger), sense-withdrawal, and devotion—central to its Yoga-śāstra and Pāśupata-oriented teachings.
While explicitly Vaishnava in imagery (Śārṅgin), the Kurma Purana’s synthesis treats the supreme lordship (devadeva) as a shared theological register; the episode supports the Purana’s non-sectarian frame where ultimate sovereignty is affirmed without denying Shaiva pathways taught elsewhere.