Kurma Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 39
Solar Rays, Planetary Nourishment, Dhruva-Bondage of the Grahas, and the Lunar Cycle
शुक्रस्य भूमिजैरश्वैः स्यन्दनो दशभिर्वृतः / अष्टबिश्चाथ भौमस्य रथो हैमः सुशोभनः
śukrasya bhūmijairaśvaiḥ syandano daśabhirvṛtaḥ / aṣṭabiścātha bhaumasya ratho haimaḥ suśobhanaḥ
زُہرہ (شُکر) کا رتھ زمین سے پیدا ہونے والے دس گھوڑوں سے گھرا ہے؛ اور بھوم (مریخ) کا رتھ بھی آٹھ گھوڑوں سے جُڑا، سنہری اور نہایت دلکش ہے۔
Purāṇic narrator (Vyāsa/Sūta-style narration) describing cosmic order
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
FAQs
This verse is primarily cosmographic, presenting orderly planetary motion through symbolic chariots; indirectly, it supports the Purāṇic vision that the cosmos operates under a higher, intelligible order upheld by the Supreme.
No direct yogic technique is taught in this verse; its value is contemplative—using cosmic order (graha-ratha imagery) as a support for dhyāna on īśvara-niyati (divine governance), a theme that becomes explicit in the Kurma Purana’s later spiritual instructions.
The verse does not explicitly mention Śiva or Viṣṇu; however, within the Kurma Purana’s Shaiva–Vaishnava synthesis, such cosmological descriptions are typically framed as functions of the one supreme reality revered through both names and forms.