Vamana Purana — Jabali on the Banyan Tree, Shloka 54
Jabali Bound on the Banyan Tree and Nandayanti’s Appeal at Sri-Kantha on the Yamuna
न च पुत्रफलं नैव पतिना योगमेष्यसि उत्सृष्टमात्रे शापे तु ह्यपोवाह त्रयोदश अपकृष्टे नपरपतौ सापि मोहमुपागता
na ca putraphalaṃ naiva patinā yogameṣyasi utsṛṣṭamātre śāpe tu hyapovāha trayodaśa apakṛṣṭe naparapatau sāpi mohamupāgatā
ਨ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪੁੱਤਰ-ਫਲ ਮਿਲੇਗਾ, ਨ ਹੀ ਪਤੀ ਨਾਲ ਯੋਗ ਹੋਵੇਗਾ। ਸ਼ਾਪ ਉਚਾਰਦੇ ਹੀ ਜਲ-ਧਾਰਾ ਰਾਜੇ ਨੂੰ ਤੇਰਾਂ ਯੋਜਨ ਦੂਰ ਵਹਾ ਲੈ ਗਈ; ਨਰਪਤੀ ਦੇ ਦੂਰ ਹੋ ਜਾਣ ਤੇ ਉਹ ਵੀ ਮੋਹ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੈ ਗਈ।
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FAQs
In this narrative register, ‘yoga’ commonly means ‘joining/union.’ The curse denies reunion or conjugal association with the husband, not necessarily meditative yoga.
Vāmana Purāṇa frequently encodes geography through story: rivers, floods, and currents become agents that relocate persons and thereby establish or explain sacred locales and distances (here, a displacement of thirteen yojanas).
Purāṇic distances can be both: a narrative quantification that also maps sacred space. Even if not cartographically exact, it signals a definite relocation that later verses often anchor to a named tirtha or river-bank.