Shloka 114
सूर्यरथ-कालचक्र-आयनविभागः, संध्योपासनम्, देवयान-पितृयानम्, विष्णुपद-गङ्गावतरणम्
भेदं चालकनन्दाख्यं यस्याः शर्वो ऽपि दक्षिणम् दधार शिरसा प्रीत्या वर्षाणाम् अधिकं शतम्
bhedaṃ cālakanandākhyaṃ yasyāḥ śarvo 'pi dakṣiṇam dadhāra śirasā prītyā varṣāṇām adhikaṃ śatam
ఆమె కేశవిభాగములోని దక్షిణ భాగము ‘చాలకనందా’ అని ప్రసిద్ధి; శర్వుడు—శివుడే—ఆనందముతో వందకు మించిన సంవత్సరములు తన శిరస్సుపై దానిని ధరించెను।
Sage Parāśara (narrating) to Maitreya
Speaker: Parasara
Topic: Why one branch of the celestial Gaṅgā is called Cālakanandā and how Śiva bears her upon his head
Teaching: Cosmological
Quality: revealing
Cosmic Hierarchy: Lokas
Concept: Even the most overwhelming sacred force is borne and mediated by divine will—Śiva receives the Gaṅgā with delight, making her descent auspicious and beneficial.
Vedantic Theme: Dharma
Application: Approach powerful experiences (emotion, success, spiritual energy) with disciplined containment and devotion so they become purifying rather than disruptive.
Vishishtadvaita: Shows coordinated divine economy: deities function as empowered instruments within the Lord’s cosmic order, enabling grace to reach the worlds safely.
FAQs
It denotes a famed and auspicious hair-parting associated with a celebrated woman, highlighted as so sanctified that even Śiva is said to have borne it as an honorific sign.
By narrating a striking devotional-cultural detail—Śiva wearing an auspicious mark for over a hundred years—Parāśara signals that the dynasty’s figures are validated through divine recognition and sacred symbolism.
Within the Vishnu Purana’s Vaiṣṇava worldview, such episodes portray a cosmos under Vishnu’s supreme order while still honoring other deities as revered powers acting within that universal sovereignty.