Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 31
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
यत्राश्विनी च भरणी कुत्तिकायास्तथांशकः मेषो राशिः कुजक्षेत्रं तच्छिरः कालरूपिणः
yatrāśvinī ca bharaṇī kuttikāyāstathāṃśakaḥ meṣo rāśiḥ kujakṣetraṃ tacchiraḥ kālarūpiṇaḥ
Там, где находятся Ашвини и Бхарани, а также часть Криттики, — там знак Меша (Овен), область Куджи (Марса); это — голова божества, пребывающего в образе Времени.
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FAQs
The cosmos is treated as a sacred body: time and divinity are readable in orderly celestial patterns. The ethical implication is alignment—human life (ritual timing, duties, self-discipline) should harmonize with ṛta (cosmic order).
This is cosmological description (sarga-type material), using jyotiṣa categories (nakṣatra, rāśi, graha-domain) to articulate divine embodiment, rather than narrative genealogy or dynastic history.
Identifying Aries (Meṣa)—the traditional starting sign—with the ‘head’ suggests a beginning-point of cosmic articulation. Associating it with Kuja (Mars) emphasizes force/energy at the ‘forefront’ of manifestation, while the inclusion of specific nakṣatras anchors the theology in a precise astral grid.