Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
आग्नेयाशास्त्रयो ब्रह्मन् प्राजापत्यं कवेर्गृहम् सौम्यार्द्ध वृषनामेदं वदनं परिकीर्तितम्
āgneyāśāstrayo brahman prājāpatyaṃ kavergṛham saumyārddha vṛṣanāmedaṃ vadanaṃ parikīrtitam
О брахман, накшатры Ашвини и Бхарани называются домом Агни; Криттика — домом Праджапати; а первая половина Вришабхи (Телец) провозглашается лицом (вадана) Шивы.
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The cosmos is presented as a sacred, ordered body in which divine powers (Agni, Soma, Prajāpati) and time-markers (nakṣatras/rāśis) are integrated into a single theistic vision—encouraging reverence for cosmic order (ṛta) and disciplined ritual time.
This aligns most closely with Sarga/Pratisarga-type cosmological description (structuring the universe and its divine correspondences), rather than Vamśānucarita or Manvantara narrative.
Assigning lunar mansions and zodiac portions to Śiva’s limbs functions like a Purāṇic ‘nyāsa’: time itself becomes Śiva’s embodiment. The ‘face’ attribution to early Vṛṣabha suggests an auspicious, stabilizing (earthy) locus for divine presence.