Vamana Purana — Narada Questions Pulastya, Shloka 10
Narada Questions Pulastya: The Vamana Purana Begins and Satī’s Monsoon Lament
पुलस्त्य उवाच पुराणं वामनं वक्ष्ये क्रमान्निखिलमादितः अवधानं स्थिरं कृत्वा शृणुष्व मुनिसत्त्म
pulastya uvāca purāṇaṃ vāmanaṃ vakṣye kramānnikhilamāditaḥ avadhānaṃ sthiraṃ kṛtvā śṛṇuṣva munisattma
普拉斯提耶说道：“我将依次第自始至终，完整宣说《婆摩那往世书》。你当安住专注而聆听，噢，诸牟尼中最胜者。”
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FAQs
The verse foregrounds śravaṇa (attentive listening) as a discipline: sacred knowledge is not merely heard but received through steadiness (sthiratā) and ordered comprehension (kramāt).
This is part of the framing transmission and does not yet instantiate the five marks directly; it functions as an upodghāta (prefatory setup) that precedes sections that may later map onto vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita and other lakṣaṇas.
The ‘from the beginning, in order’ emphasis symbolizes dharma as an intelligible cosmic sequence—Purāṇic truth is conveyed as a structured unfolding rather than a random collection of tales.