Vamana Purana — Nara-Narayana's Tapas, Shloka 52
Nara-Narayana’s Tapas, Indra’s Temptation, and the Burning of Kama: The Origin of Ananga and the Shiva-Linga Episode
यस्त्वां यदा पश्यति चैत्रमासे स्पृशेन्नरो वार्चयते च भक्त्या वृद्धो ऽथ बालो ऽथ युवाथ योषित् सर्वे तदोन्मादधरा भवन्ति
yastvāṃ yadā paśyati caitramāse spṛśennaro vārcayate ca bhaktyā vṛddho 'tha bālo 'tha yuvātha yoṣit sarve tadonmādadharā bhavanti
凡于凯特罗月（Caitra）之时，见到你者，或有人触及你者，或以虔敬供奉你者——无论老者、孩童、青年或女子——皆于彼时成为“unmāda”（狂乱/神醉）之承受者。
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FAQs
Devotional contact—seeing, touching, worshipping—when aligned with sacred time (Caitra) is said to transform all social categories equally, implying a leveling force of bhakti that overrides age and gender distinctions.
Dharma/ācāra-oriented narrative insert (often embedded in Purāṇic carita): it prescribes/validates ritual efficacy tied to kāla (time), a common Purāṇic strategy for sacralizing calendrical observance.
‘Unmāda’ can be read as devotional ecstasy (bhāva) rather than pathology: the boon makes the devotee ‘mad’ with joy, signaling a liminal state where ordinary decorum yields to sacred rapture.