Varaha Purana 113.67: Adhyaya 113, Shloka 67
Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
Pūrva Bhāga · Devotional address (attributes and epithets of Nārāyaṇa)
धनुषां च पिनाकोऽसि साङ्ख्ययोगोऽसि चोत्तमः ॥ परम्परोऽसि लोकानां नारायणः परायणः ॥
dhanuṣāṃ ca pināko 'si sāṃkhyayogo 'si cottamaḥ || paramparo 'si lokānāṃ nārāyaṇaḥ parāyaṇaḥ ||
dhanuShAM cha pinAko.asi sAMkhyayogo.asi chottamaH || paramparo.asi lokAnAM nArAyaNaH parAyaNaH
ধনুৰ মাজত তুমি পিনাক; আৰু তুমি সৰ্বোত্তম সাঙ্ক্য আৰু যোগ। তুমি লোকসমূহৰ ধাৰক পৰম্পৰা/ব্যৱস্থা; তুমি নাৰায়ণ, পৰম আশ্ৰয়।
Sandhi Notes
- pināko 'si = pinākaḥ + asi (visarga sandhi)
- sāṃkhyayogo 'si = sāṃkhya-yogaḥ + asi
- cottamaḥ = ca + uttamaḥ
- paramparo 'si = paramparaḥ + asi
Pṛthivī (inferred continuation of direct address)
Earnest, seeking assurance through philosophical praise
How are all powers—martial, philosophical, and cosmic order—ultimately grounded in you as the final refuge?
The Supreme is the source of power (weaponry), knowledge (Sāṃkhya), practice (Yoga), and cosmic continuity; therefore He alone is parāyaṇa (final resort).
Hold a non-sectarian vision: honor multiple disciplines while anchoring devotion and practice in the one highest refuge.
Earth continues stuti, portraying the Lord as supreme refuge and as the ordering principle of worlds.
By identifying the Lord with Pināka (Śiva’s bow) and with Sāṃkhya-Yoga, the verse collapses sectarian boundaries into a single supreme source; ‘paramparā of worlds’ signals the Lord as the sustaining continuity (dharma/ṛta) through cycles.
Ritual-philosophical synthesis: weapons (kṣatra) and knowledge-disciplines (jñāna/yoga) are limbs of the same cosmic sacrifice upheld by Nārāyaṇa; ‘paramparā’ evokes uninterrupted yajña-flow across yugas.
Integrative Vedānta: the Supreme as both upāya (means—yoga) and upeya (goal—parāyaṇa), and as the substrate in which tattva-enumeration (Sāṃkhya) finds completion.
Indirect: Nārāyaṇa/Mādhava titles later central in Kṛṣṇa-bhakti, but no Mathurā-mahātmya marker here.
Varāha Purāṇa 113.113.4 (refuge and cosmic identifications); Varāha Purāṇa 113.113.6 (Lord as śraddhā and sustainer of all births)
FAQs
It is valuable for intellectual history because it references Sāṃkhya and Yoga within a Purāṇic devotional frame, showing cross-pollination between philosophical vocabulary and narrative theology.
No geographic location is identified in this verse.
The verse elevates disciplined knowledge (Sāṃkhya-Yoga) and reliance on a highest refuge (parāyaṇa) as orienting principles.
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