Vamana Purana — Caturmasya Observances, Shloka 37
The Cāturmāsya Observances and the Sleeping–Awakening Cycle of the Gods (Hari–Hara Worship)
ज्ञातवांश्च ततश्छिद्रं राक्षसानां दिवस्पतिः स्वधर्मविच्युतिर्नाम सर्वधर्मविघातकृत्
jñātavāṃśca tataśchidraṃ rākṣasānāṃ divaspatiḥ svadharmavicyutirnāma sarvadharmavighātakṛt
随后，昼主天（Divaspati，白昼之主）识得罗刹的破绽：名为“偏离自性之法（自我之 dharma）”的状态，它能障碍一切法。
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FAQs
The root of large-scale moral collapse is shown as personal deviation from svadharma. When beings abandon their proper restraint and duty, the breakdown spreads, becoming ‘sarva-dharma-vighāta’—a systemic disruption of order.
It functions as didactic carita within purāṇic narration: ethical diagnosis embedded in story. It is aligned with the Purāṇic aim of dharma-upadeśa (instruction in righteousness) rather than a separate pancalakṣaṇa category like sarga or manvantara.
‘Chidra’ (a crack) implies that adharmic powers are undone not only by external force but by internal inconsistency—loss of self-law (svadharma). Sūrya, as discernment/light, ‘finds the crack’ by seeing the moral fault-line.