Varaha Purana 33.18: Adhyaya 33, Shloka 18
The Origin of Rudra, the Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, and the Establishment of Paśupati
पूष्णो दन्तविनाशाय भगनेत्रहने नमः । भविष्यवृषचिह्नाय महाभूतपते नमः ॥ ३३.१८ ॥
pūṣṇo dantavināśāya bhaganetrahane namaḥ | bhaviṣyavṛṣacihnāya mahābhūtapate namaḥ || 33.18 ||
نَمو لِمَن أَهْلَكَ أَسنانَ پُوشَن؛ نَمو لِقاتِلِ عينِ بَهَگا. نَمو لِمَن شِعارُهُ الثور، ونَمو لِرَبِّ العناصرِ العُظمى (المهابهوتا).
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It preserves a compact set of mythic epithets associated with pan-Indic narrative memory (e.g., Pūṣan and Bhaga), illustrating how Purāṇic verses encode older Vedic and epic motifs through devotional-style salutations.
No explicit geographic location is named in this verse; it is primarily a sequence of honorific epithets and mythic references.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse models a philosophical posture of reverential acknowledgment—using concise epithets to recall actions, symbols, and cosmic functions (such as lordship over the elements).
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