Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 29
Madhu–Kaiṭabha, Nārāyaṇa’s Yoga-Nidrā, Rudra’s Manifestation, and the Aṣṭamūrti–Trimūrti Teaching
शनैश्चरस्तथा शुक्रो लोहिताङ्गो मनोजवः / स्कन्दः सर्गो ऽथ सन्तानो बुधश्चैषां सुताः स्मृताः
śanaiścarastathā śukro lohitāṅgo manojavaḥ / skandaḥ sargo 'tha santāno budhaścaiṣāṃ sutāḥ smṛtāḥ
شنیشچر اور شُکر، لوہِتانگ اور منوجَو؛ نیز اسکند، سرگ، سنتان اور بُدھ—یہ سب اُن کے بیٹے کہے گئے ہیں۔
Sūta (traditional narrator) recounting Purāṇic genealogy to the sages
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
This verse is genealogical rather than directly metaphysical; it supports the Purāṇic view that cosmic order (grahas, lineages, and time) operates within a divinely sustained dharma-framework, against which teachings on Ātman and Īśvara are later articulated.
No explicit Yoga practice is taught in this specific śloka; it provides cosmological lineage context that, in the Kurma Purāṇa, frames later disciplines (e.g., Pāśupata-oriented restraint, purity, and devotion) as aligned with an ordered universe.
The verse itself lists planetary/lineage names and does not state a Shiva–Vishnu doctrine directly; within the Kurma Purāṇa’s broader synthesis, such cosmological catalogues are presented as part of one sacred order upheld by the same supreme reality revered through both Vaiṣṇava and Śaiva idioms.