Vamana Purana — Indra's Penance & Aditi's Vow, Shloka 2
Indra’s Penance at the Great River and Aditi’s Solar Vow for Vishnu’s Descent
तत्रापश्यत् स देवेशं ब्रह्माणं कमलोद्भवम् ऋषिभिः सार्धमासीनं पितरं स्वं च कश्यपम्
tatrāpaśyat sa deveśaṃ brahmāṇaṃ kamalodbhavam ṛṣibhiḥ sārdhamāsīnaṃ pitaraṃ svaṃ ca kaśyapam
There he beheld the Lord of the gods, Brahmā, born from the lotus, seated together with the sages; and he also saw his own father Kaśyapa.
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FAQs
The epithet recalls the standard Purāṇic cosmogony in which Brahmā arises from a lotus emerging from Viṣṇu’s navel. In narrative terms it signals Brahmā’s authority as the cosmic administrator whom the devas approach in crisis.
Kaśyapa is the Prajāpati through whom the principal divine and demonic lineages proceed. His presence frames the conflict with Bali not merely as political but as a family-lineage crisis requiring ancestral counsel and a dharmic remedy.
No. This is a court/assembly scene setting up the theological and narrative transition toward Viṣṇu’s avatāra solution; the verse itself names no tīrtha, river, or kṣetra.