Vamana Purana — Caturmasya Observances, Shloka 37
The Cāturmāsya Observances and the Sleeping–Awakening Cycle of the Gods (Hari–Hara Worship)
ज्ञातवांश्च ततश्छिद्रं राक्षसानां दिवस्पतिः स्वधर्मविच्युतिर्नाम सर्वधर्मविघातकृत्
jñātavāṃśca tataśchidraṃ rākṣasānāṃ divaspatiḥ svadharmavicyutirnāma sarvadharmavighātakṛt
त्यानंतर दिवस्पतीने राक्षसांचे छिद्र ओळखले—‘स्वधर्मविच्युति’ नावाची ती अवस्था, जी सर्व धर्मांचा विघात करणारी आहे.
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FAQs
The root of large-scale moral collapse is shown as personal deviation from svadharma. When beings abandon their proper restraint and duty, the breakdown spreads, becoming ‘sarva-dharma-vighāta’—a systemic disruption of order.
It functions as didactic carita within purāṇic narration: ethical diagnosis embedded in story. It is aligned with the Purāṇic aim of dharma-upadeśa (instruction in righteousness) rather than a separate pancalakṣaṇa category like sarga or manvantara.
‘Chidra’ (a crack) implies that adharmic powers are undone not only by external force but by internal inconsistency—loss of self-law (svadharma). Sūrya, as discernment/light, ‘finds the crack’ by seeing the moral fault-line.