Vamana Purana — Sacred Abodes of Vishnu & Shiva, Shloka 22

Catalogue of Vishnu and Shiva’s Sacred Abodes (Tirtha-Mahatmya within the Pulastya–Narada Frame)

Devanagari script

महालये स्मृतं रुद्रमुत्तरेषु कुरुष्वथ पद्मनाभं मुनिश्रेष्ठ सर्वसौख्यप्रदायकम्

Transliteration

mahālaye smṛtaṃ rudramuttareṣu kuruṣvatha padmanābhaṃ muniśreṣṭha sarvasaukhyapradāyakam

Translation

ਮਹਾਲਯ ਵਿੱਚ ਰੁਦ੍ਰ ਦਾ ਸਿਮਰਨ ਕੀਤਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। ਅਤੇ ਉੱਤਰੀ ਕੁਰੂਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ, ਹੇ ਮੁਨੀਸ਼੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ, ਸਭ ਸੁਖ ਦੇਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਪਦਮਨਾਭ ਵਿਹਾਜਦਾ ਹੈ।

Speakers

• Narrator/teacher addressing a sage (vocative: muniśreṣṭha); specific interlocutors not stated in the given excerpt.

Primary Deities

• Shiva (Rudra)
• Vishnu (Padmanabha)

Key Themes

• Śaiva–Vaiṣṇava co-presence across the sacred map
• Mythic geography (Uttara-Kuru) integrated into pilgrimage imagination
• Deity epithets as cartographic markers

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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