Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 45
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
पुलस्त्य उवाच स्वरूपं तव वक्ष्यामि राशीनां शृणु नारद यादृशा यत्र संचारा यस्मिन् स्थाने वसन्ति च
pulastya uvāca svarūpaṃ tava vakṣyāmi rāśīnāṃ śṛṇu nārada yādṛśā yatra saṃcārā yasmin sthāne vasanti ca
پلستیہ نے کہا—میں تمہیں راشیوں کی ماہیت بتاؤں گا؛ سنو، اے نارد—وہ کیسی ہیں، ان کی گردش کہاں ہوتی ہے، اور وہ کن مقامات میں قیام کرتی ہیں۔
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Knowledge is framed as disciplined listening (śravaṇa) within a guru–śiṣya style dialogue: the cosmos is intelligible through ordered categories (rāśi-svarūpa, saṃcāra, sthāna), encouraging attentiveness and methodical inquiry.
This material is ancillary/didactic rather than a direct instance of the five classic purāṇic marks (sarga, pratisarga, vaṃśa, manvantara, vaṃśānucarita). It is best cataloged as upabṛṃhaṇa (supplementary instruction), sometimes grouped under dharma/vidyā-prasaṅga sections in Purāṇas.
By introducing ‘form, movement, and residence’ of signs, the text symbolically maps macrocosm to patterns—suggesting that worldly phenomena have recognizable rhythms and loci, a common purāṇic bridge between cosmology and lived experience.