Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 101
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
नाहोपरि तथा मुष्टौ स्थानं शशिमणिप्रभम् पञ्चगुल्माभवज्जाती शशाङ्ककिरणोज्ज्वला
nāhopari tathā muṣṭau sthānaṃ śaśimaṇiprabham pañcagulmābhavajjātī śaśāṅkakiraṇojjvalā
ฉันนั้น บริเวณด้านบน ณ ตำแหน่งกำปั้น ซึ่งส่องประกายดุจรัศมีแห่งแก้วจันทร์ ได้กลายเป็น ‘ชาตี’ (มะลิ) เป็นพุ่มห้ากอ สว่างไสวด้วยรัศมีแห่งพระจันทร์
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FAQs
Purity and cooling gentleness (moonlight symbolism) are presented as spiritual qualities of a place; the pilgrim is encouraged toward calmness, restraint, and non-violence in sacred precincts.
As with the surrounding verses, it functions as tīrtha-māhātmya/etiological narration rather than cosmological creation cycles; it is best indexed as narrative glorification of sacred locales.
The ‘fist’ location suggests embodied mapping of holiness; ‘moon-gem’ and ‘moonbeams’ encode śītala (cool, soothing) sattvic sanctity, while ‘five thickets’ can be read as a structured sacred micro-landscape (pañca as an auspicious organizing number).