Vamana Purana — Shiva's Kedara Tirtha, Shloka 33
Shiva’s Kedara-Tirtha and the Rise of Mura: From Shaiva Pilgrimage to Vaishnava Theology
यं यं करतलेनाहं स्पृशेयं समरे विभो स स मद्धस्तसंस्पृष्टस्त्वमरो ऽपि मरत्वतः
yaṃ yaṃ karatalenāhaṃ spṛśeyaṃ samare vibho sa sa maddhastasaṃspṛṣṭastvamaro 'pi maratvataḥ
اے پروردگار! جنگ میں میں جسے بھی اپنی ہتھیلی سے چھوتا ہوں، وہ میرے ہاتھ کے لمس سے—اگرچہ امر ہو—موت کے تابع ہو جاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
In Purāṇic idiom, ‘amara’ denotes devas who are long-lived and deathless by nature, yet still vulnerable to higher cosmic law and to boons granted by Brahmā. The verse underscores that a boon can temporarily override the ordinary protections of ‘immortality’ within the narrative economy.
Yes. Boons often take the form of conditional invincibility (e.g., death only by a specific agent or circumstance). Here the condition is ‘contact with Mura’s palm,’ a compact way to express a lethal siddhi granted through tapas and divine sanction.
Not endorsement, but the Purāṇic motif that Brahmā, as granter of boons, responds to tapas and truthfulness of austerity. The moral resolution typically comes through a higher countermeasure—another deity’s intervention, a loophole, or the restoration of dharma through divine strategy.