Vamana Purana — Rudra's Wrath & Kalarupa, Shloka 44
Rudra’s Wrath at Daksha’s Sacrifice and the Iconography of Kālarūpa through the Zodiac
नारद उवाच राशयो गदिता ब्रह्मंस्त्वया द्वादश वै मम तेषां विशेषतो ब्रूहि लक्षणानि स्वरूपतः
nārada uvāca rāśayo gaditā brahmaṃstvayā dvādaśa vai mama teṣāṃ viśeṣato brūhi lakṣaṇāni svarūpataḥ
那罗陀说道：“噢，受敬的婆罗门啊，你已向我讲述十二罗施（rāśi）。如今请你依其真实形相，分别说明它们的界定特征。”
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FAQs
The verse models śāstric learning: respectful questioning and a move from enumeration to understanding ‘lakṣaṇa’ (defining marks), i.e., from mere data to discriminative knowledge.
It functions as a suturing dialogue prompt within Sarga/cosmology exposition, advancing the instructional sequence about the cosmos and time-reckoning.
Nārada, the archetypal inquirer and transmitter, bridges revelation and systematization—turning cosmological lists (twelve signs) into meaningful categories with ‘svarūpa’ (essential nature).