Shloka 59
ध्रुवस्य तपः — देवमायाविघ्नाः, विष्णोर्दर्शनम्, स्तुतिः, ध्रुवस्थानप्रदानम्
यद् भूतं यच् च वै भव्यं पुरुषोत्तम तद् भवान् त्वत्तो विराट् स्वराट् सम्राट् त्वत्तश् चाप्य् अधिपूरुषः
yad bhūtaṃ yac ca vai bhavyaṃ puruṣottama tad bhavān tvatto virāṭ svarāṭ samrāṭ tvattaś cāpy adhipūruṣaḥ
ഹേ പുരുഷോത്തമാ! ഭൂതത്തിൽ ഉണ്ടായതും ഭാവിയിൽ ഉണ്ടാകുന്നതും—അത് എല്ലാം നീ തന്നെയാണ്. നിന്നിൽ നിന്നാണ് വിരാട്, സ്വരാട്, സമ്രാട്; നിന്നിൽ നിന്നുതന്നെ അധിപുരുഷനും ഉദ്ഭവിക്കുന്നു।
Sage Parāśara (in discourse to Maitreya; verse voiced as a praise describing Vishnu’s supremacy)
FAQs
It declares Vishnu as the all-encompassing Supreme Reality—time and all events are contained in Him, not merely governed by Him.
He presents all levels of manifested authority—cosmic totality (Virāṭ), independent lordship (Svarāṭ), and universal emperorship (Samrāṭ)—as arising from Vishnu, making sovereignty derivative of the Supreme.
It affirms Vishnu as the primal, supreme Person from whom even exalted cosmic principles proceed, aligning the Purana’s cosmology with a personal Supreme (central to Vaishnava Vedanta).