Shloka 16
Jabali Bound by the Monkey — Jabali Bound by the Monkey: Nandayanti’s Ordeal and the Yamuna–Hiranyavati Sacred Corridor
इति संचिन्तयन्नेव समाद्रवत् सुन्गदरीम् सा तद् भयाच्च न्यपतन्नदीं चैव हिरण्वतीम्
iti saṃcintayanneva samādravat sungadarīm sā tad bhayācca nyapatannadīṃ caiva hiraṇvatīm
เมื่อคิดดังนั้น เขาก็วิ่งฉับไวไปยังสุนคทรี; แต่นางด้วยความหวาดกลัวเขา จึงตกลงสู่แม่น้ำหิรัณวตี
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FAQs
In the Vāmana Purāṇa’s geography-forward style, naming a river anchors the legend to a specific sacred landscape. Such narrative ‘incidents’ often function etiologically—explaining why a riverbank, ford, or bathing-place becomes noteworthy for pilgrimage.
The accusative feminine proper name ‘suṅgadarīm’ and the immediate reference ‘sā…nyapatat’ (‘she fell’) indicate Suṅgadarī is a woman in the narrative, not a toponym in this line. Later tradition sometimes maps such figures onto local tīrthas, but this verse itself presents her as a person.
A common structure is: approach to a sacred site → misunderstanding/recognition → sudden crisis (fear, fall, curse, rescue) → revelation of the site’s power or naming. The fall into Hiraṇvatī is the crisis-point that can lead to a sanctifying outcome or moral instruction in subsequent verses.