Varaha Purana 149.5: Adhyaya 149, Shloka 5
The Sacred Geography and Merit of Dvārakā
श्रीवराह उवाच ॥ एवं भूमे वरं श्रेष्ठे फुल्लपङ्कजमालिनि ॥ कथयिष्यामि चान्यत्ते गुह्यं पापभयापहम् ॥
śrīvarāha uvāca || evaṃ bhūme varaṃ śreṣṭhe phullapaṅkajamālini || kathayiṣyāmi cānyat te guhyaṃ pāpabhayāpaham
Śrī Varāha sprach: „So sei es, o Erde—o Vortreffliche, geschmückt mit Girlanden erblühter Lotosblumen. Ich werde dir auch anderes sagen: eine geheime Lehre, die die aus Sünde entspringende Furcht vertreibt.“
Varāha
FAQs
It signals a transition to an esoteric or especially valued narrative unit, a common Purāṇic device for emphasizing moral instruction.
No specific location is named; ‘Bhūmi’ is the personified Earth as interlocutor.
Moral instruction is framed as a means to reduce fear and instability caused by harmful actions.
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