Varaha Purana 21.41 — Adhyaya 21, Shloka 41
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari–Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
देवा रौद्राणि भूतानि निरसन्तो यमालयम् । चिक्षिपुः सायकान् घोरान् असिंश्च सपरश्वधान् ॥ २१.४२ ॥
devā raudrāṇi bhūtāni nirasanto yamālayam | cikṣipuḥ sāyakān ghorān asīṃś ca saparaśvadhān || 21.42 ||
দেবগণ রৌদ্র ভয়ংকর ভূতদের তাড়িয়ে যমালয়ের দিকে অগ্রসর হলেন। তাঁরা ভীষণ শর নিক্ষেপ করলেন এবং খড়্গ ও পরশু চালালেন।
Varāha (default narrator/instructor voice, not explicit in fragment)
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":"None","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":"None","karmic_consequence":"None"}
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"}
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Subject Matter: ["Cosmology","Ethics","Mythic conflict narrative"]
Primary Rasa: Vira
Secondary Rasa: Raudra
Type: cosmic/otherworldly realm
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 21.21.43-46 (continuation of the battle sequence)
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FAQs
It exemplifies Purāṇic narrative style where cosmic order is dramatized through conflicts involving divine agents and liminal beings; such passages are useful for studying mythic idiom, martial vocabulary, and conceptions of Yama’s realm in early medieval Sanskrit literature.
No terrestrial geographic site is named here; “Yamālaya” denotes Yama’s abode (a cosmological/otherworldly locus rather than a mapped earthly location).
Implicitly, the verse frames the restoration of order through the restraint or removal of destructive forces; it presents protection of the moral-cosmic balance as a legitimizing rationale for force within the narrative.
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