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Vamana Purana — Shiva's Kedara Tirtha, Shloka 62

Shiva’s Kedara-Tirtha and the Rise of Mura: From Shaiva Pilgrimage to Vaishnava Theology

Devanagari script

इत्येवामुक्त्वा वचनं दुग्धाब्धिमगमन्मुरः यत्रास्ते शेषपर्यङ्के चतुर्मूर्तिर्जनार्दनः

Transliteration

ityevāmuktvā vacanaṃ dugdhābdhimagamanmuraḥ yatrāste śeṣaparyaṅke caturmūrtirjanārdanaḥ

Translation

ครั้นกล่าวถ้อยคำนั้นแล้ว มุระก็ไปยังเกษียรสมุทร (มหาสมุทรน้ำนม) ที่ซึ่งพระชนารทนะผู้มีสี่ภาวะบรรทมเหนือแท่นบรรทมแห่งเศษะ

Word by Word

इतिthus

एवम्in this way

उक्त्वाhaving said

वचनम्words / speech

दुग्धाब्धिम्the Milk Ocean

अगमत्went

मुरःMura (the demon)

यत्रwhere

आस्तेis seated / remains

शेषपर्यङ्केon the couch of Śeṣa

चतुर्मूर्तिःfour-formed / having four manifestations

जनार्दनःJanārdana (Viṣṇu)

Speakers

Narrator (continuing the account to Nārada; explicit speaker appears in 34.63 as Nārada)

Primary Deities

Vishnu (Janārdana)Śeṣa/Ananta (serpent couch)

Key Themes

Cosmic ocean as sacred locusAnanta-śayana iconographyFourfold manifestation theologyDaitya approaching the divine abode

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the ‘Ocean of Milk’ in Purāṇic geography and cosmology?

Dugdhābdhi (Kṣīroda) is a cosmic ocean classically enumerated among the mythic oceans and also functions as a transcendent sacred locus where Nārāyaṇa is envisioned reclining on Ananta. It is not a terrestrial tirtha but a cosmographic ‘divine geography’ frequently invoked in Purāṇas.

Why is Vishnu called ‘caturmūrti’ here?

The epithet signals a fourfold mode of manifestation. In many Vaiṣṇava theological frames this can point to the catur-vyūha (Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, Aniruddha) or to four functional aspects (creation, maintenance, dissolution, grace). The next verse shows Nārada explicitly asking how the one Vishnu is described as fourfold, indicating a doctrinal clarification is intended.

What is the significance of ‘Śeṣa-paryaṅka’?

Śeṣa/Ananta as the serpent-couch symbolizes infinity, stability, and the support of cosmic order. The image of Hari reclining on Ananta in the cosmic waters is a standard Purāṇic iconography expressing transcendence and immanence: the Lord rests ‘within’ the cosmos while remaining beyond it.