Shloka 17
Kuru's Consecration — Kuru’s Consecration and the Sanctification of Samantapañcaka (Kurukshetra)
देवा ऊचुः कियन्त्यो वेदयः सन्ति ब्रह्मणः पुरुषोत्तम येनोत्तरतया वेदिर्गादिता सर्वपञ्चका
devā ūcuḥ kiyantyo vedayaḥ santi brahmaṇaḥ puruṣottama yenottaratayā vedirgāditā sarvapañcakā
Дэвы сказали: «О Пурушоттама, сколько существует алтарей (веди) Брахмы, благодаря которым северный алтарь провозглашается “сарвапанчака” — “всецело пятикратным”?»
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FAQs
The Devas’ inquiry frames dharma as structured and knowable: sacred order is articulated through enumerations (how many altars, which is ‘northern’, what constitutes the pentad), emphasizing disciplined knowledge (vidyā) as part of religious life.
This is ancillary to the pancalakṣaṇa core; it functions as tīrtha/karma-kāṇḍa instruction embedded in Purāṇic narrative. It aligns most closely with didactic-ākhyāna within vamśānucarita-style framing rather than cosmogenesis (sarga/pratisarga).
The ‘fivefold’ (pañcaka) motif sacralizes completeness and cosmic order (pañca as a totality marker). The ‘northern altar’ suggests directional sanctity—space itself is hierarchized for ritual, mirroring the way inner life is ordered by dharma.