Vamana Purana — Shiva's Wedding Procession (Part 1), Shloka 48

Shiva’s Wedding Procession to Kailasa and the Marriage of Girija (Kali)

Devanagari script

विन्ध्यश्च मलयश्चैव पारियात्रो ऽथ दुर्दरः कैलासाद्रिर्महेन्द्रश्च निषधो ऽञ्जनपर्वतः

Transliteration

vindhyaśca malayaścaiva pāriyātro 'tha durdaraḥ kailāsādrirmahendraśca niṣadho 'ñjanaparvataḥ

Translation

Vindhya and Malaya, as well as Pāriyātra; then Durdara; Kailāsa mountain, Mahendra, Niṣadha, and Añjana—these are (named) mountains.

Speakers

• Not specified in the provided excerpt (often Pulastya ↔ Nārada framework in the Vāmana Purāṇa)

Primary Deities

• Shiva

Key Themes

• Sacred Geography
• Purāṇic Cosmography
• Sectarian Harmony (implicit, via shared sacred landscape)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "adbhuta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

By placing widely known ranges (Vindhya, Malaya) together with Kailāsa, the text frames the physical world as a dharmic map: sacredness is not isolated but distributed, inviting reverence and restraint toward the earth.

How does this fit the Pancalakṣaṇa?

Again, this is cosmographic Sarga-type material (world-structure and its notable features), not the Bali narrative or dynastic history.

What is the symbolic significance?

Kailāsa functions as a Śaiva axis of sanctity within a broader cosmography, illustrating the Purāṇic habit (including in the Vāmana Purāṇa) of integrating multiple sectarian sacred centers into a single, coherent sacred world.