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Vamana Purana — Shiva's Kedara Tirtha, Shloka 16

Shiva’s Kedara-Tirtha and the Rise of Mura: From Shaiva Pilgrimage to Vaishnava Theology

Devanagari script

एतद् वरं हरात् तीर्थं प्राप्य पुष्णाति देवताः पुनाति पुंसां केदारस्त्रिनेत्रवचनं यथा

Transliteration

etad varaṃ harāt tīrthaṃ prāpya puṣṇāti devatāḥ punāti puṃsāṃ kedārastrinetravacanaṃ yathā

Translation

हराने दिलेल्या या श्रेष्ठ तीर्थास प्राप्त होऊन मनुष्य देवतांना पुष्ट (प्रसन्न) करतो; केदार लोकांना पवित्र करतो, जसा त्रिनेत्र (शिव) याचा वचन अचूक असतो।

Word by Word

एतत्this

वरम्excellent

हरात्from Hara (Śiva)

तीर्थम्sacred ford/pilgrimage place

प्राप्यhaving obtained/reached

पुष्णातिnourishes / prospers

देवताःthe deities

पुनातिpurifies

पुंसाम्of men

केदारःKedāra

त्रिनेत्रवचनम्the word of the three-eyed one (Śiva)

यथाas / just as

Speakers

Unspecified in the excerpt (continuation of Adhyaya 34’s narration praising a Śaiva-associated tīrtha).

Primary Deities

Shiva

Key Themes

Tirtha MahimaShaiva sanctity of placePurification (pavana)Deva-tarpaṇa / sustaining the gods through rite

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "adbhuta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

FAQs

What is ‘Kedāra’ in this passage—field, shrine, or tīrtha?

Although ‘kedāra’ can mean a cultivated field, the verse explicitly uses it as a proper noun for a tīrtha. In Purāṇic geography, such names often denote a sacralized locale (frequently Śaiva) where bathing and worship are said to purify.

How does visiting a tīrtha ‘nourish the deities’?

The phrase ‘puṣṇāti devatāḥ’ reflects the ritual logic that offerings, homa, tarpaṇa, and worship performed at a potent site are especially efficacious, thereby ‘strengthening/pleasing’ the devas—an idiom for successful ritual reciprocity.

Why compare Kedāra’s power to Śiva’s ‘word’?

Śiva’s ‘vacana’ signifies an irrevocable divine decree. The comparison asserts reliability: Kedāra’s purificatory effect is as certain as the truth-power (satya/ādeśa) of the Three-eyed Lord.