Shloka 12
Measure of the Three Worlds, Planetary Spheres, and Sūrya as the Root of Trailokya
ऋषीणां मण्डलादूर्ध्वं लक्षमात्रे स्थितो ध्रुवः / मेढीभूतः समस्तस्य ज्योतिश्चक्रस्य वै ध्रुवः / तत्र धर्मः स भगवान् विष्णुर्नारायणः स्थितः
ṛṣīṇāṃ maṇḍalādūrdhvaṃ lakṣamātre sthito dhruvaḥ / meḍhībhūtaḥ samastasya jyotiścakrasya vai dhruvaḥ / tatra dharmaḥ sa bhagavān viṣṇurnārāyaṇaḥ sthitaḥ
เหนือวงสัปตฤๅษีขึ้นไปหนึ่งลักษะ มีธรุวะตั้งอยู่ ธรุวะเป็นแกนตรึงอันไม่หวั่นไหวของจักรแห่งดวงประทีปทั้งปวง ณ ที่นั้น พระผู้เป็นเจ้า วิษณุ-นารายณ์ ผู้ทรงเป็นธรรมะเอง ประทับอยู่.
Narratorial voice (Purāṇic narrator describing cosmic geography and the Dhruva-loka as supported by Narayana)
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
By identifying Narayana as “Dharma” established at the cosmic pivot, the verse presents the Supreme as the sustaining, ordering principle behind the universe—an inner steadiness mirrored outwardly as Dhruva’s fixity.
While not prescribing techniques directly, the imagery of Dhruva as the unmoving pivot supports a classic yogic ideal: ekāgratā (one-pointed steadiness) and dhāraṇā on the stable principle (Dharma/Narayana) amid the turning “wheel” of phenomena.
It foregrounds Vishnu-Narayana as Dharma sustaining the cosmos; within the Kurma Purana’s broader Shaiva–Vaishnava synthesis, such cosmic functions are treated as expressions of the one supreme reality, even when named specifically as Vishnu here.