Only divine jivas…

I am sorting out Pramanas from «Shree Vamana-Purana» this week and register them in my own database of Vaishnava Pramanas.

One of the most interesting features of «Shree Vamana-Purana» is the stressing out the idea of Bhagavan Shree Vishnu protecting/favouring only divine jivas (suras, devas).

Another interesting feature is some Pramanas, dedicated to Shree Krishna — they usually appear «out of the blue» in the background of more frequent array of Pramanas dedicated to Bhagavan Shree Vasudeva and Bhagavan Shree Vishnu.

The above yellow-blue screenshot from Chapter 31 (see the screenshot also on #flickr, #plurk) unites both features: it dwells on Shree Krishna and tells that Shree Krishna always protects only devas!

The same Pramana in UNIC-Devanagari/IAST:

कृतकृत्यस्य देवस्य देवार्थं चैव कुर्वतः 
अलं दद्यां धनं देवे त्वेतद्वाच्यं तु याचतः 
कृष्णस्य देवभूत्यर्थं प्रवृत्तस्य महासुर १६
kṛtakṛtyasya devasya devārthaṃ caiva kurvataḥ
alaṃ dadyāṃ dhanaṃ deve tvetadvācyaṃ tu yācataḥ
kṛṣṇasya devabhūtyarthaṃ pravṛttasya mahāsura  [«Shree Vamana-Purana», 31.16]