Varaha Purana 2.76: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 76
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
एतस्मिन् वेदसरसि स्नानं कुरु महाव्रत । क्रीते स्नानेऽन्यजन्मीयं येन स्मरसि सत्तम ॥ २.७५ ॥
etasmin vedasarasi snānaṃ kuru mahāvrata | kṛte snāne 'nyajanmīyaṃ yena smarasi sattama || 2.75 ||
«في بحيرة فيداسارا هذه، يا صاحب النذر العظيم، اغتسل. فإذا تمّ الاغتسال، فببركته، يا خيرَ الصالحين، ستتذكّر ما يخصّ ميلادًا آخر (ذكريات حياة سابقة).»
Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic tīrtha-literature motif: specific water-bodies are catalogued as culturally significant heritage sites where prescribed rites (such as snāna) are linked to spiritual or cognitive outcomes, indicating the social role of pilgrimage and place-based ritual in early medieval Sanskrit traditions.
The verse names a water-body called “Vedasara-saras” (Vedasara lake). The fragment does not provide enough corroborating to securely map it to a single modern site; it should be indexed as a textual toponym pending cross-references within the same adhyāya or parallel tīrtha lists.
The instruction is to undertake a disciplined, vow-aligned ritual bath at a designated sacred water site; the implied philosophical principle is that disciplined practice (vrata + snāna) functions as a means of purification and heightened remembrance/insight, here framed as recollection of previous-life experience.
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