Shloka 81
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
तत्र स्त्रात्वा प्रकुर्वोत दानहोमादिकं विधिम् ।
स एष वैष्णवः पादो ब्रह्मा मध्ये ग्रहस्य यः ।
नारायणाख्योऽचिन्त्यात्मा कारणं जगतः प्रभुः ॥
tatra strātvā prakurvota dānahomādikaṃ vidhim / sa eṣa vaiṣṇavaḥ pādo brahmā madhye grahasya yaḥ / nārāyaṇākhyo 'cintyātmā kāraṇaṃ jagataḥ prabhuḥ
وہاں غسل وغیرہ (تطہیری عمل) ادا کر کے دستور کے مطابق دان، ہوم (آگ میں نذر) وغیرہ انجام دینے چاہییں۔ یہ ویشنو پاؤں ہے۔ اور جو سیّاروی نظام کے وسط میں قائم برہما-تتّو ہے، وہ ناقابلِ تصور فطرت والا، عالم کا سبب، ربّ ‘نارائن’ کہلاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Affliction is met with purification and constructive action—charity and sacrifice—framing ‘remedy’ as ethical-religious responsibility, grounded in devotion to the cosmic Lord.
The theological claim ‘Nārāyaṇa is the cause of the world’ belongs to Sarga/Pratisarga theology; the ritual instruction is ancillary dharma/prāyaścitta guidance attached to the cosmology.
The ‘Vaiṣṇava foot’ suggests a sacred point of contact between cosmos and practitioner: by rites (bath, homa, dāna) one aligns the microcosm with the cosmic limb of Nārāyaṇa.