Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 29
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
स्मरन् सतीं महादेवस्तथोन्मादेन ताडितः न शर्म लेभे देवर्षे बाणविद्ध इव द्विपः
smaran satīṃ mahādevastathonmādena tāḍitaḥ na śarma lebhe devarṣe bāṇaviddha iva dvipaḥ
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FAQs
Even divine narratives portray the intensity of grief and attachment to teach the gravity of loss and the need to sublimate sorrow into dharmic action; the simile of the wounded elephant underscores unrest when the mind is pierced by pain.
This functions as an etiological narrative segment supporting tīrtha/glory material and falls under ancillary purāṇic narration aligned with Vaṃśānucarita/character-episode style rather than core cosmogenesis (Sarga/Pratisarga).
Śiva’s ‘unmāda’ symbolizes the destabilizing force of unresolved saṃskāras; the arrow-wounded elephant image suggests that once afflicted, the being cannot rest until the cause is transformed—here leading to a sacred-geographic transformation of the river.