Shiva Purana — Rudra Samhita, Shloka 54
शिवपुत्रजननवर्णनम् — Description of the Birth/Manifestation of Śiva’s Son
तपोमासस्नानकर्त्र्यस्त्रियो यास्स्युः प्रगे शुचे । तद्देहेषु स्थापय त्वं शिवरेतस्त्विदं महत्
tapomāsasnānakartryastriyo yāssyuḥ prage śuce | taddeheṣu sthāpaya tvaṃ śivaretastvidaṃ mahat
हे शुचि! तपोमासातील स्नान-व्रत पाळणाऱ्या स्त्रिया ज्या प्रातःकाळी असतील, त्यांच्या देहांत तू शिवाचे हे महान बीज-तेज स्थापित कर।
Lord Shiva
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Sadāśiva
Shakti Form: Pārvatī
Role: creative
FAQs
The verse highlights Śiva’s anugraha (grace) working through disciplined purity—especially the Tapomāsa observance—showing that sincere vrata and śauca (inner-outer cleanliness) become a vessel for divine transformative power.
Tapomāsa bathing and vow-keeping are classic Saguna-Śiva devotional disciplines: the devotee honors Śiva through embodied ritual (snāna, vrata), and Śiva responds by bestowing his śakti—symbolically expressed here as Śiva’s ‘seed-energy’—which is aligned with Linga-centered worship as the sign of Śiva’s creative and gracious presence.
A dawn (prātaḥ) ritual bath during Tapomāsa, maintained with purity and vow-discipline; as a meditative takeaway, keep śauca and mentally dedicate the practice to Śiva (e.g., with japa of “Om Namaḥ Śivāya”) to receive his grace.