Shloka 7
Manvantaras, Indras, Saptarṣis, and the Seven Sustaining Manifestations; Vyāsa as Nārāyaṇa
पारावताश्च तुषिता देवाः स्वारोचिषे ऽन्तरे / विपश्चिन्नाम देवेन्द्रो बभूवासुरसूदनः
pārāvatāśca tuṣitā devāḥ svārociṣe 'ntare / vipaścinnāma devendro babhūvāsurasūdanaḥ
സ്വാരോചിഷ മന്വന്തരത്തിൽ ദേവന്മാർ പാരാവതരും തുഷിതരുമായിരുന്നു; ദേവേന്ദ്രൻ ‘വിപശ്ചിത്’ എന്ന ഇന്ദ്രൻ, അസുരസംഹാരകനായി വർത്തിച്ചു.
Primary narrator (Purāṇic narration, traditionally Sūta/ Vyāsa’s narration in discourse)
Primary Rasa: vira
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
This verse is primarily cosmological, naming deva-groups and Indra for a specific Manvantara; it implies the ordered governance of the cosmos under dharma rather than directly defining Ātman.
No explicit yoga practice is taught in this line; it belongs to the Manvantara framework that later supports dharma and yoga teachings (including Pāśupata-oriented discipline) by situating them in a structured cosmic chronology.
Indirectly: by presenting a shared Purāṇic cosmology where divine offices (like Indra) function within a single sacred order upheld in both Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava streams—an interpretive basis for the Kurma Purana’s synthesis.