Vamana Purana — Ritadhvaja Aids Galava, Shloka 21
Ritadhvaja’s Aid to Galava and Andhaka’s Infatuation with Gauri
इयं यदि भवेन्नैव ममान्तःपुरवासिनि तन्मदीयेन जीवेन क्रियते निष्फलेन किम्
iyaṃ yadi bhavennaiva mamāntaḥpuravāsini tanmadīyena jīvena kriyate niṣphalena kim
“Nếu người nữ này không trở thành người ở trong nội cung của ta, thì sinh mệnh của ta—dẫu là của ta—có ích gì khi đã hóa vô quả?”
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FAQs
‘Antaḥpura’ is not merely a palace space; it signals a regime of possession and control. Andhaka’s wish to make her ‘mamāntaḥpuravāsinī’ frames desire as entitlement, which the Purāṇas treat as a hallmark of asuric disposition and a cause of ruin.
It verbalizes intent: not just attraction but determination to seize. In the Andhaka cycle, this intention toward Pārvatī (Śiva’s consort) becomes the decisive transgression that summons divine resistance and sets the trajectory toward Andhaka’s destruction.
No. The verse is psychological and ethical in focus, with no explicit toponyms or sacred hydrography.