Vamana Purana — Shukra's Curse on King Danda, Shloka 75

Shukra’s Curse on King Danda and Andhaka’s Challenge to Shiva

Devanagari script

यासौ चित्राङ्गदा नाम त्वया दृष्टा हि नैमिषे सप्तगोदावरं तीर्थं सा मयैव विसर्जिता

Transliteration

yāsau citrāṅgadā nāma tvayā dṛṣṭā hi naimiṣe saptagodāvaraṃ tīrthaṃ sā mayaiva visarjitā

Translation

जी चित्राङ्गदा नावाची कन्या तू नैमिषात पाहिली होतीस—सप्तगोदावर नावाच्या तीर्थात तिला मीच विसर्जित केले होते।

Speakers

• Ṛtadhvaja speaking to the king

Key Themes

• Sacred geography and tīrtha-identification
• Etiological linking of a person to a place
• Pilgrimage memory as proof ("whom you saw")

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is ‘Saptagodāvara’—a river or a tīrtha?

The verse explicitly calls it a tīrtha. The compound suggests a ‘sevenfold’ manifestation or a cluster of seven sacred fords associated with the Godāvarī. Purāṇic geography often names tīrthas by such symbolic numeration.

Why connect Citrāṅgadā to Naimiṣa and then to Saptagodāvara?

This is a typical Purāṇic technique: a known sighting at a famous pilgrimage center (Naimiṣa) authenticates the narrative, while the ‘release’ at another tīrtha provides an origin-story that sacralizes that second location.

What does ‘visarjitā’ imply here?

Literally ‘released/sent away.’ Depending on the surrounding story, it can mean dismissal after protection, release from a constraint (social/ritual), or sending her to reside/appear at a tīrtha—each reading reinforces the tīrtha’s sanctifying agency.