Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 1
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
इति श्रीवामनपुराणे पञ्चमो ऽध्यायः पुलस्त्य उवाच हृद्भवो ब्रह्मणो यो ऽसौ धर्मो दिव्यवपुर्मुने दाक्षायाणी तस्य भार्या तस्यामजनयत्सुतान्
iti śrīvāmanapurāṇe pañcamo 'dhyāyaḥ pulastya uvāca hṛdbhavo brahmaṇo yo 'sau dharmo divyavapurmune dākṣāyāṇī tasya bhāryā tasyāmajanayatsutān
至此，《圣·婆摩那往世书》第五章结束。普罗罗斯提耶（Pulastya）说道：牟尼啊，法（Dharma）由梵天（Brahmā）之心而生，具天妙之身；达克沙耶尼（Dākṣāyaṇī）为其妻，与她生下诸子。
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FAQs
Dharma is portrayed as originating from the very ‘heart’ of the creator, indicating righteousness as a foundational principle of cosmic order, not merely a social convention. Lineage narratives here function to root ethical life in sacred cosmology.
This aligns most closely with Vaṃśa / Vaṃśānucarita-style material (genealogical narration of personified principles and their descendants). It is not sarga/pratisarga proper, but it participates in the Purāṇic mandate to map cosmic and ethical order through lineages.
‘Heart-born’ (hṛdbhava) signals that dharma is the inner essence of creation. The pairing with a ‘Dākṣāyaṇī’ figure symbolically links dharma to orderly generation (dakṣa = skill/order), implying that righteousness and orderly progeny (social/cosmic continuity) are interdependent.