Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 40
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
उत्तरांशास्त्रयो ऋक्षं श्रवणं मकरो मुने धनिष्ठार्धं शतभिषा जानुनी परमेष्ठिनः
uttarāṃśāstrayo ṛkṣaṃ śravaṇaṃ makaro mune dhaniṣṭhārdhaṃ śatabhiṣā jānunī parameṣṭhinaḥ
ഹേ മുനേ, മൂന്ന് ഉത്തരാംശങ്ങൾ, ശ്രവണവും മകരവും (മകര രാശി), കൂടാതെ ധനിഷ്ഠയുടെ ഉത്തരാർദ്ധം ശതഭിഷയോടുകൂടെ—ഇവ പരമേഷ്ഠിയുടെ ഇരട്ട മുട്ടുകളായി കീര്ത്തിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു।
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FAQs
By identifying ‘knees’ with specific sky-divisions, the text invites meditative integration: one’s understanding of time-cycles can become devotion, seeing the divine in the very joints that ‘articulate’ cosmic movement.
Primarily Sarga-type cosmological structuring (how the manifested order is mapped and understood), with a secondary function as a devotional aid (upāsanā) through cosmic visualization.
Knees signify flexion and transition—symbolically mirroring how nakṣatras and rāśis mark transitions in lunar/solar motion. The mapping sacralizes change itself as a divine articulation rather than randomness.