Vamana Purana — Shiva's Wedding Procession (Part 1), Shloka 38

Shiva’s Wedding Procession to Kailasa and the Marriage of Girija (Kali)

Devanagari script

स एव धन्यो हि पिता यस्य पुत्री शुभं पतिम् रूपाभिजनसंपत्त्या प्राप्नोति गिरिसत्तम

Transliteration

sa eva dhanyo hi pitā yasya putrī śubhaṃ patim rūpābhijanasaṃpattyā prāpnoti girisattama

Translation

บิดาผู้นั้นเท่านั้นแลเป็นผู้มีบุญ ที่ธิดาของตนได้สามีอันเป็นมงคล ด้วยความงาม วงศ์ตระกูล และความมั่งคั่ง—โอ้ยอดแห่งขุนเขา।

Speakers

• Not specified in the provided excerpt; vocative ‘girisattama’ suggests the addressee is Himālaya (personified mountain-king)

Primary Deities

• Implied: Himālaya (as a personified mountain-king, father figure in Devī narratives)
• Implied: Devī (as the daughter)

Key Themes

• Dharma
• Marriage norms (kanyā/vara)
• Auspiciousness (śubha)
• Purāṇic social ethics

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

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FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The verse frames familial duty and social harmony: a father’s ‘blessedness’ is linked to establishing the daughter in a worthy marriage, reflecting the Purāṇic ethic of household order (gṛhastha-dharma) as a support of cosmic order.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana?

Vamśānucarita/embedded narrative instruction: it uses a genealogical-mythic setting (Himālaya as archetypal father) to teach dharma; not a cosmological creation segment.

What is the symbolic significance?

Addressing ‘best of mountains’ evokes Himālaya’s stability and sanctity: the daughter’s auspicious alliance symbolizes the channeling of raw power/beauty (rūpa) and inherited virtue (abhijana) into dharmic union, which in Śaiva-Śākta myth culminates in Devī’s union with Śiva.