Vamana Purana — Shiva's Wedding Procession (Part 1), Shloka 71
Shiva’s Wedding Procession to Kailasa and the Marriage of Girija (Kali)
देवैर्गणैश्चापि वृतो गिरीशः स शोभते मुक्तजटाग्रभारः यता वने सर्ज्जकदम्बमध्ये प्ररोहमूलो ऽथ वनस्पतिर्वै
devairgaṇaiścāpi vṛto girīśaḥ sa śobhate muktajaṭāgrabhāraḥ yatā vane sarjjakadambamadhye prarohamūlo 'tha vanaspatirvai
देवैर्गणैश्च परिवृतो गिरीशः प्रसन्नदीप्त्या विराजते, मुक्तजटाग्रभारः; यथा वने सर्ज्जकदम्बमध्ये प्ररोहमूलसमृद्धो वनस्पतिरिव शोभते।
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FAQs
The verse teaches dhyāna through beauty: contemplation of the Lord’s form (rūpa-śobha) stabilizes devotion. The presence of both devas and gaṇas suggests cosmic order harmonized around Śiva—divinity integrates the ‘celestial’ and the ‘liminal’.
It is descriptive narration within an episode (carita), not a pancalakṣaṇa core (sarga/pratisarga). Such iconographic passages often support tīrtha-māhātmya or bhakti instruction by supplying a meditational image.
Śiva’s loosened jaṭā evokes both ascetic power and unleashed grace. The forest-tree simile portrays him as the central ‘axis’ of the sacred ecology: just as a great tree rises amid other trees, Śiva stands resplendent amid devas and gaṇas, sustaining the spiritual ‘forest’ around him.