Varaha Purana 162.28 — Adhyaya 162, Shloka 28
The Efficacy and Merit of Cakra-tīrtha
सन्निधावुपलं दृष्ट्वा गृहीतं तेन तत्पदा ॥ चूर्णयामास तौ पादौ पीडया मोहितो द्विजः ॥
sannidhāv upalaṁ dṛṣṭvā gṛhītaṁ tena tat-padā || cūrṇayāmāsa tau pādau pīḍayā mohito dvijaḥ ||
নিকটে একটি পাথর দেখে সে পা দিয়ে তা তুলে নিল। যন্ত্রণায় বিমূঢ় সেই দ্বিজ নিজের দুই পা চূর্ণ করে ফেলল।
Narrator (default dialogue frame: Varāha → Pṛthivī)
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"observer","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"A didactic narrative moment illustrating bodily harm and the immediacy of pain-driven confusion.","karmic_consequence":"Implicit warning: heedlessness and rash action lead to self-injury and further misfortune."}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"ethics of embodied life","core_concept":"The body’s vulnerability can overwhelm discernment; suffering can precipitate further harmful choices.","practical_application":"Cultivate steadiness (dhairya) and seek help/appropriate remedies rather than acting impulsively under pain."}
Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Body & Health"]
Primary Rasa: karuṇa
Secondary Rasa: bhayānaka
Type: unspecified setting
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 162 (didactic narrative on ethics, death, and ritual eligibility)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A distressed twice-born man near a stone, lifting/pressing it with his foot in confusion, crushing his own feet from intense pain.","item_prompts":["injured feet","nearby stone","grimace of pain","forest/pathside or courtyard ambiguity","sense of sudden accident"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: strong outlines, earthy reds/greens; depict the dvija in anguished posture with the stone near his feet, minimal background foliage.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore style: central figure with dramatic gesture; emphasize ornamented clothing of a dvija, gold accents on borders, stone rendered with textured relief.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore painting: delicate shading, refined facial expression of pain, subdued palette; stone and feet as focal detail.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari style: lyrical landscape edge (path and shrubs), expressive face, simplified stone; emphasize narrative clarity and emotion."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"somber, cautionary","suggested_raga":"Bhairavi","pace":"medium-slow","voice_tone":"grave, empathetic"}
FAQs
It shows how physical injury is used as a narrative instrument to concretize abstract ethical claims within Purāṇic storytelling.
No geographic location is specified.
The passage reinforces the story’s causal chain: bodily suffering follows conditions described earlier, expressed here through an accident-like event.
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