Varaha Purana 10.40: Adhyaya 10, Shloka 40
The Threefold Division by the Guṇas, the Deities’ Attainment of Worship, and the Opening of the Durjaya Episode
दुर्जयश्च सुराञ्जित्वा यावत् प्रतिनिवर्तते । गन्धमादनपृष्ठे तु स्कन्धावारनिवेशनम् । कृत्वावस्थितसम्भारमागतं तापसौ तु तम ॥ १०.४१ ॥
durjayaś ca surāñ jitvā yāvat pratinivartate | gandhamādana-pṛṣṭhe tu skandhāvāra-niveśanam | kṛtvāvasthita-sambhāram āgataṃ tāpasau tu tam || 10.41 ||
Nachdem Durjaya die Götter besiegt hatte, kehrte er um. An den Hängen des Gandhamādana errichtete er ein Heerlager; als Vorräte und Ausrüstung bereitgestellt waren, kam das Asketenpaar zu ihm.
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It preserves a Purāṇic narrative motif where political-military movement (victory, return, encampment) is anchored to named sacred geography, offering evidence for how texts mapped power and travel onto culturally significant landscapes.
Gandhamādana, a mytho-geographic mountain associated with the Himalayan cosmographic sphere in Sanskrit literature; modern scholarship typically treats it as a literary-geographic toponym rather than a single fixed mountain.
The verse itself is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; it foregrounds preparedness and the encounter between worldly power (encampment and conquest) and ascetic presence (tāpasau), a common Purāṇic setup for subsequent moral or philosophical instruction.
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