Vamana Purana — Saptarishis Seek Uma for Shiva, Shloka 39
The Saptarishis Seek Uma for Shiva: Himavan Grants the Marriage
सापि शर्ववचो रौद्रं श्रुत्वा ज्ञानसमन्विता अन्तर्दुःखेन दह्यन्ती पितरं प्राह पार्वती
sāpi śarvavaco raudraṃ śrutvā jñānasamanvitā antarduḥkhena dahyantī pitaraṃ prāha pārvatī
سمجھ و آگہی سے بہرہ مند پاروتی نے بھی شَروَ کے سخت کلمات سن کر، اندرونی غم سے جلتی ہوئی، اپنے والد سے کہا۔
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FAQs
Discernment (jñāna) does not negate emotion; rather, inner pain can be refined into disciplined spiritual resolve. Pārvatī’s response models converting grief into purposeful sādhana instead of resentment.
This is best classified under Vamśānucarita / Carita (narrative of divine-associated lineages and exemplary figures), not sarga/pratisarga. It is an episode illustrating the character and conduct of Pārvatī within the Purāṇic narrative flow.
Śiva’s ‘raudra’ speech functions as a catalytic force: the ‘terrible’ becomes transformative. Pārvatī’s inner burning (dahyantī) foreshadows tapas (inner heat), suggesting that spiritual ‘heat’ is the sublimation of emotional heat.