Shloka 7
वेन-पृथु-प्रादुर्भावः, राजधर्मः, पृथिवीदोहनम्
Vena–Pṛthu Episode and the Milking of Earth
अङ्गात् सुनीथापत्यं वै वेनम् एकम् अजायत प्रजार्थम् ऋषयस् तस्य ममन्थुर् दक्षिणं करम्
aṅgāt sunīthāpatyaṃ vai venam ekam ajāyata prajārtham ṛṣayas tasya mamanthur dakṣiṇaṃ karam
У Анги от Сунии́тхи родился единственный сын — Вена. Но ради блага народа и восстановления порядка преемства мудрецы словно «взбили» его правую руку, извлекая царскую силу, чтобы вновь утвердить праведное правление по дхарме.
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
FAQs
It signifies a deliberate, sacred extraction of royal power to protect the people—an image of restoring dharma when ordinary kingship fails.
Parāśara frames it as prajārtha—done for the welfare and continuity of the subjects—showing that sovereignty is accountable to cosmic and social order.
Even when Vishnu is not named in the verse, the Purana’s worldview treats legitimate kingship and social stability as functioning under Vishnu’s supreme order (dharma upheld through divinely aligned rule).