Varaha Purana 137.73: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 73
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
सोमदत्तेन बाणेन एकेनैव निपातितः ॥ ततो जातोऽस्म्यहं भद्रे कलिङ्गानां जनाधिपः
somadattena bāṇena ekenaiva nipātitaḥ || tato jāto'smyahaṃ bhadre kaliṅgānāṃ janādhipaḥ
Von einem einzigen Pfeil, den Somadatta abschoss, zu Boden gestreckt, wurde ich danach, o glückverheißende Dame, zum Herrscher der Kaliṅga.
Varāha (default dialogue frame; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It preserves a Purāṇic-style memory of regional polities (Kaliṅga) through narrative motifs of succession and transformation, useful for studying how texts encode political geography.
Kaliṅga—an ancient region generally associated with coastal eastern India (often correlated with parts of present-day Odisha and adjoining areas in historical scholarship).
Implicitly, it underscores the contingency of worldly status (rise to rulership) within narrative causality, rather than presenting a direct prescriptive rule.
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