Varaha Purana 28.8: Adhyaya 28, Shloka 8
The Manifestation of Māyā as Durgā/Kātyāyanī and the Slaying of Vaitrāsura
तां दृष्ट्वा रूपसंपन्नां स राजा क्रुद्धमानसः । उवाच का असि सुश्रोणि सत्यं कथय भामिनि ॥ २८.८ ॥
tāṁ dṛṣṭvā rūpasaṁpannāṁ sa rājā kruddhamānasaḥ | uvāca kā asi suśroṇi satyaṁ kathaya bhāmini || 28.8 ||
فلما رآها كاملةَ الحُسن، قال الملك وقد اشتعل قلبه غضبًا: «مَن أنتِ أيتها ذاتُ الخَصرِ الحَسَن؟ قولي الحقَّ يا امرأةَ الهوى.»
Rājā (King; unnamed in this excerpt)
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic narrative technique: character-driven dialogue framed through courtly speech and emotional states (here, royal anger), offering material for studying social address-terms and narrative ethics in Sanskrit literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it is a situational dialogue line without explicit toponymy.
The verse foregrounds truth-telling (satyam kathaya) as a demanded norm within interpersonal and political encounter, while also depicting the risks of judgment under anger (kruddhamānasaḥ).
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