Vamana Purana — Harihara Non-Duality, Shloka 54

Harihara Non-Duality and the Revelation of Sadasiva to the Ganas

Devanagari script

तदा निर्धूतपापास्ते समजायन्त पार्षदाः तेष्वेवं धूतपापेषु अभिन्नेषु हरीश्वरः

Transliteration

tadā nirdhūtapāpāste samajāyanta pārṣadāḥ teṣvevaṃ dhūtapāpeṣu abhinneṣu harīśvaraḥ

Translation

तदा ते निर्धूतपापाः पार्षदत्वं समजायन्त; एवं धूतपापेषु तेषु अभिन्नभावे प्रतिष्ठितेषु हर्यीश्वरः तत्राविर्भूतः।

Speakers

• Narratorial voice describing the devotees’ purification and their becoming divine attendants

Primary Deities

• Harīśvara (Hari-Śiva)
• Viṣṇu
• Śiva

Key Themes

• Purification (pāpa-kṣaya)
• Attainment of divine proximity (pārṣadatva)
• Hari–Hara unity
• Transformative power of knowledge/realization

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What does it mean that they ‘became pārṣadas’?

Pārṣada denotes a deity’s attendant—one admitted into the divine retinue. In Purāṇic idiom it signifies elevated spiritual status and proximity to the deity, often as a fruit of tīrtha-merit and right knowledge.

Is the purification here due to ritual bathing at a tīrtha or due to philosophical insight?

The passage links purification to jñāna and abheda-vision (non-difference). In the Saro-mahātmya setting, tīrtha practice and insight are typically paired: the tīrtha supports inner transformation, and insight consummates it.

Who is Harīśvara in this verse?

Harīśvara is a unitive epithet—Hari (Viṣṇu) and Īśvara (Śiva) understood as one lord. It functions as a theological bridge, affirming that devotion to either culminates in the same supreme reality.