Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 43
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
एवं कृत्वा कालरूपं त्रिनेत्रो यज्ञं क्रोधान्मार्गराजघान विद्धश्चासौ वेदनाबुद्धिमुक्तः खे संतस्थौ तारकाभिश्चिताङ्गः
evaṃ kṛtvā kālarūpaṃ trinetro yajñaṃ krodhānmārgarājaghāna viddhaścāsau vedanābuddhimuktaḥ khe saṃtasthau tārakābhiścitāṅgaḥ
Demikianlah, setelah mengambil rupa Waktu (kālarūpa), Yang Bermata Tiga, kerana murka, menumbangkan Yajña—pembunuh Mārgarāja. Walau tertikam, bebas daripada derita dan kesedaran biasa, baginda tetap tegak di angkasa, tubuhnya bertanda/berhias dengan bintang-bintang.
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FAQs
Personified ‘Yajña’ being struck by the ‘three-eyed’ power warns that ritual (yajña) without right orientation—without humility, truth, or proper cosmic alignment—can be disrupted by higher principles (kāla, īśvara). It also implies that even ‘sacrifice’ is not above moral-cosmic governance.
This is ancillary mythic material supporting cosmological mapping (Sarga) by giving a narrative etiology for a celestial phenomenon (abiding ‘in the sky’ with stars). It is not primarily Vaṃśa/Manvantara.
Śiva as kālarūpa represents time’s consuming sovereignty; the ‘sky’ and ‘star-marked body’ language reads like a mythic encoding of a constellation/asterism origin story—turning a theological event into a celestial signpost.