Varaha Purana 47.2: Adhyaya 47, Shloka 2
The Rite of Śrāvaṇa Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī (Dāmodara Worship) and the Exemplum of King Nṛga
दामोदराय पादौ तु हृषीकेशाय वै कटिम् । सनातनेति जठरमुरः श्रीवत्सधारिणे ॥ ४७.२ ॥
dāmodarāya pādau tu hṛṣīkeśāya vai kaṭim | sanātaneti jaṭharam uraḥ śrīvatsadhāriṇe || 47.2 ||
«تُخصَّص القدمان لدامودارا (Dāmodara)، والخصر لهريشيكيشا (Hṛṣīkeśa)، والبطن بصيغة “سناتانا” (Sanātana)، والصدر لحامل علامة شريفاتسا (Śrīvatsa).»
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
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It preserves a Purāṇic-layer witness to Vaiṣṇava ritual vocabulary—especially nyāsa-like assignment of divine epithets to body regions—useful for tracing intersections of Purāṇa, mantra practice, and iconographic theology.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily ritual-iconographic rather than topographic.
The verse conveys a disciplined contemplative practice: structuring attention and reverence through ordered bodily and verbal acts, emphasizing mindful embodiment rather than a social-legal injunction.
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