Varaha Purana 17.52: Adhyaya 17, Shloka 52
King Prajāpāla’s Visit to Sage Mahātapā’s Hermitage and the Doctrinal Praise of Nārāyaṇa
अग्निः प्राणोऽपानश्च आकाशं सर्वधातवः । क्षेत्रं तद्वदहंकारो भानुः कामादयो मया । काष्ठा वायुर्विष्णुर्धर्म शम्भुस्तथेन्द्रियार्थकाः ॥ १७.५२ ॥
agniḥ prāṇo 'pānaś ca ākāśaṁ sarvadhātavaḥ | kṣetraṁ tadvad ahaṅkāro bhānuḥ kāmādayo mayā | kāṣṭhā vāyur viṣṇur dharma śambhus tathendriyārthakāḥ || 17.52 ||
«Feuer (Agni), Lebenshauch (prāṇa) und abwärts gehender Hauch (apāna), Äther und alle Bestandteile; ebenso das kṣetra (Feld), die Ichhaftigkeit (ahaṅkāra), die Sonne (bhānu), das Begehren und das Übrige—dies alles ist durch mich; die Himmelsrichtungen, der Wind, Viṣṇu, Dharma, Śambhu und ebenso die Gegenstände der Sinne.»
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic style of enumerating cosmological and psychological categories (e.g., prāṇa/apāna, elements, ahaṅkāra), showing how Purāṇas integrate older philosophical vocabularies into narrative-teaching contexts.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it is primarily an ontological and cosmological enumeration.
Rather than a direct moral rule, the verse frames a philosophical instruction: the constituents of the cosmos and embodied experience are presented as integrated within a single overarching principle, encouraging a reflective view of self, nature, and order (dharma) as interconnected.
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