Narratives from the Vāyu Purāṇa

On the cosmic ocean Brahmā and Vishṇu enter each other's bodies, see Bhagavān Śiva walking on the water, and offer him the 160-verse Śārva Stava.

In the Vāyu Purāṇa, Satī leaves her body by yogāgni at Daksha's yajña, Vīrabhadra and Bhadrakālī destroy it, and Śiva shares out the Jvara.

Dharmavratā, daughter of Dharma, is cursed by her husband Marīci and becomes the Dharmaśilā, the most sacred rock of Gayā.

The Vāyu Purāṇa's account of Gayā: Gayāsura, the Dharmaśilā, the gadā of Bhagavān Vishṇu, the tīrthas of Gayā and a four-day pilgrimage.

Bhagavān Vishṇu tells the devas how he and Brahmā met the endless pillar of fire and found Bhagavān Śiva standing in it.

The Vāyu Purāṇa tells how Madhu and Kaiṭabha rose from the ear of sleeping Vishṇu, fought him for five thousand years and were killed on his thighs.

Diti's tapas, Indra's service and his blow inside her womb, and how her forty-nine sons became the Maruts, the winds of the seven vāyu-skandhas.

The Vāyu Purāṇa opens at Naimishāraṇya, where Sūta tells the Purāṇa to the ṛshis during a twelve-year satra led by Śaunaka.

Why the throat of Bhagavān Śiva is blue: Śiva drinks the kālakūṭa visha at the churning of the ocean, told in three nested accounts in the Vāyu Purāṇa.

Pṛthu makes Bhūdevī yield, and every class of beings milks the earth-cow in turn for its own food, as the Vāyu Purāṇa tells.

King Raji wins back svarga for the devas, becomes Indra for a time, and after his death his sons seize the throne until Bṛhaspati stops them.

In the Vāyu Purāṇa, Bhagavān Vishṇu takes the form of Varāha to lift Bhūdevī from the waters at the start of the kalpa, and the nine kinds of creation follow.

The ṛshis ask Sūta whether anything is left untold; he speaks of Para Brahman, Kṛshṇa of Goloka, and Vyāsa's three hundred years of tapas on Meru.