Shiva Purana — Rudra Samhita, Shloka 35
शिवस्तुतिवर्णनम् (Śiva-stuti-varṇanam) — “Description of Hymns in Praise of Śiva”
तेषामधर्मनिष्ठानां दैत्यानां देवसत्तम । पुरत्रयविनाशं च करिष्येऽहं न संशयः
teṣāmadharmaniṣṭhānāṃ daityānāṃ devasattama | puratrayavināśaṃ ca kariṣye'haṃ na saṃśayaḥ
اے بہترینِ دیوتا! جو دَیتیہ ادھرم میں جمے ہوئے ہیں، اُن کے تری پور کا وِناش بھی میں ہی کروں گا—اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Śiva (as the divine agent who resolves to destroy Tripura)
Tattva Level: pati
Shiva Form: Tripurāntaka
Sthala Purana: Tripuradahana is a pan-Śaiva mythic episode rather than a single jyotirliṅga-sthala: the devas, unable to subdue the adharmic daityas in the three aerial/fortified cities, seek Śiva; Śiva becomes Tripurāntaka and destroys Tripura at the destined moment.
Significance: Recalling Tripurāntaka is traditionally linked with removal of inner ‘threefold’ impurities (āṇava, karma, māyā) by Śiva’s decisive grace-through-destruction.
Type: stotra
Role: destructive
FAQs
In Purāṇic theology, Tripura often functions as a moral-cosmological symbol: entrenched adharma becomes structurally fortified (as ‘cities’), requiring divine agency to restore dharma. The verse frames Śiva’s act not as arbitrary violence but as the re-establishment of cosmic order, where the dissolution of adharma is presented as a necessary corrective within the sacred economy of the universe.