Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 45
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
पुलस्त्य उवाच स्वरूपं तव वक्ष्यामि राशीनां शृणु नारद यादृशा यत्र संचारा यस्मिन् स्थाने वसन्ति च
pulastya uvāca svarūpaṃ tava vakṣyāmi rāśīnāṃ śṛṇu nārada yādṛśā yatra saṃcārā yasmin sthāne vasanti ca
पुलस्त्य उवाच—राशीनां स्वरूपं ते वक्ष्यामि; शृणु नारद—यादृशाः, यत्र तेषां संचारः, यस्मिन् स्थाने च वसन्ति।
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Knowledge is framed as disciplined listening (śravaṇa) within a guru–śiṣya style dialogue: the cosmos is intelligible through ordered categories (rāśi-svarūpa, saṃcāra, sthāna), encouraging attentiveness and methodical inquiry.
This material is ancillary/didactic rather than a direct instance of the five classic purāṇic marks (sarga, pratisarga, vaṃśa, manvantara, vaṃśānucarita). It is best cataloged as upabṛṃhaṇa (supplementary instruction), sometimes grouped under dharma/vidyā-prasaṅga sections in Purāṇas.
By introducing ‘form, movement, and residence’ of signs, the text symbolically maps macrocosm to patterns—suggesting that worldly phenomena have recognizable rhythms and loci, a common purāṇic bridge between cosmology and lived experience.