Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 47
Dakṣa-yajña-bhaṅgaḥ — Dadhīci’s Teaching and the Destruction of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice
सर्वे शंप्राप्य तं देशं गङ्गाद्वारमिति श्रुतम् / ददृशुर्यज्ञदेशं तं दक्षस्यामिततेजसः
sarve śaṃprāpya taṃ deśaṃ gaṅgādvāramiti śrutam / dadṛśuryajñadeśaṃ taṃ dakṣasyāmitatejasaḥ
وہ سب اُس علاقے میں پہنچے جو ‘گنگا دوار’ کے نام سے مشہور تھا۔ وہاں انہوں نے بے پایاں جلال والے دکش کی یَجْن بھومی دیکھی۔
Narrator (Purāṇic narration, traditionally Sūta/primary narrator within the Kurma Purana frame)
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: raudra
FAQs
This verse is primarily geographic-narrative: it situates the story at Gaṅgādvāra and introduces Dakṣa’s sacrificial arena; it does not directly teach ātman-doctrine, but it prepares the setting where dharma, ritual power, and divine presence become thematically contrasted in later passages.
No explicit yoga practice is taught in this line; the emphasis is on arriving at a tīrtha (Gaṅgādvāra) and witnessing a yajña-site—elements that, in Purāṇic religion, support purification and readiness for higher teachings such as those later systematized as Pāśupata-oriented discipline in the Kurma Purana.
The verse does not name Śiva or Viṣṇu directly; it frames the Dakṣa-yajña context, which elsewhere becomes a key narrative for understanding the limits of ritual without devotion—often used in the Kurma Purana’s broader Shaiva–Vaishnava synthesis to affirm divine supremacy beyond mere sacrificial display.