Varaha Purana 136.124: Adhyaya 136, Shloka 124
A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions
मूर्खः स पापकर्मा च मम कर्मपरायणः ॥ यांस्तु दोषान्प्रपद्येत संसारं च वसुन्धरे ॥
mūrkhaḥ sa pāpakarmā ca mama karmaparāyaṇaḥ || yāṁs tu doṣān prapadyeta saṁsāraṁ ca vasundhare
إنه أحمقٌ وفاعلُ آثام، مُنصرفٌ إلى مثل تلك الأعمال. وأيُّ عيوبٍ يكتسبها فإنه يسقط أيضًا في السَّمْسارا، يا فاسوندهارا.
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It exemplifies Purāṇic moral causality: ethical failure is linguistically tied to ‘doṣa’ and to continued entanglement in saṁsāra, a recurring didactic theme across Sanskrit literature.
No geographic reference appears in this verse.
It warns that persistent wrongdoing and attachment to harmful action lead to fault (doṣa) and continued bondage in the cycle of worldly existence (saṁsāra).
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