Vamana Purana — Harihara Revelation, Shloka 55
Harihara Revelation and the Kurukshetra Tirtha Cycle: Sthanu in Vishnu and the Sanctification of Saptasarasvata
नकारो मुखसंस्थो हि वृषस्तत्र प्रकीर्तितः ज्येष्ठमासाश्च तत्पत्रं द्वितीयं परिकीर्तितम्
nakāro mukhasaṃstho hi vṛṣastatra prakīrtitaḥ jyeṣṭhamāsāśca tatpatraṃ dvitīyaṃ parikīrtitam
‘ന’ അക്ഷരം മുഖത്തിൽ സ്ഥിതമാണ്; അവിടെ വൃഷ (വൃഷഭ) രാശി പ്രസ്താവിതമാണ്. ജ്യേഷ്ഠ മാസം അതിന്റെ പത്രം—രണ്ടാം പത്രകമെന്നു സ്മരിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു.
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FAQs
Purāṇic and tantric-adjacent cosmologies often map sound (śabda) onto the body (aṅga-nyāsa logic). The ‘mouth’ is the organ of speech, so placing a syllable there emphasizes creative/ritual utterance as a structuring principle of the sacred diagram and, by extension, the tīrtha’s power.
The verse continues an ordered progression: Meṣa (Aries) to Vṛṣa (Taurus) mirrors the zodiacal sequence; Vaiśākha to Jyeṣṭha mirrors the month sequence. The text is building a complete calendrical-astrological grid across petals/segments.
Indirectly, yes. By assigning months to petals, the text suggests that worship, bathing, or offerings at the tīrtha may be especially efficacious when performed in the corresponding month, aligning ritual action with the tīrtha’s cosmically ‘activated’ segment.