Shloka 63
Vamana's Three Steps — Vamana’s Three Steps and the Binding of Bali
स्वर्गं गते धातरि वासुदेवे शाल्वो ऽसुराणां महता बलेन कृत्वा पुरं सौभमिति प्रसिद्धं तदान्तरिक्षे विचचार कामात्
svargaṃ gate dhātari vāsudeve śālvo 'surāṇāṃ mahatā balena kṛtvā puraṃ saubhamiti prasiddhaṃ tadāntarikṣe vicacāra kāmāt
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FAQs
Śālva is a famed adversary figure associated with an extraordinary moving city called Saubha. Across Purāṇic and epic materials, Saubha is portrayed as a magically engineered fortress capable of traveling in the sky, used to harass gods and kings.
It signals a cosmic moment of transition—when the Creator is ‘away’—as a narrative device to introduce Asuric ascendancy and the construction of extraordinary strongholds, emphasizing the cyclical rise of Daityas when divine order is not manifestly intervening.
Not in the terrestrial sense (rivers, lakes, forests). The geography is cosmological: svarga (heaven) and antarikṣa (mid-sky), plus the named aerial city Saubha.