Varaha Purana 2.17: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 17
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī–Veda Narrative
तस्मिन् सलिलमग्ने तु पुनरन्यं प्रजापतिम् । ब्रह्मा ससर्ज भूतेषु दक्षिणाङ्गुष्ठतो वरम् ॥ वामे चैव तथाङ्गुष्ठे तस्य पत्नीमथासृजत् ॥ २.१७ ॥
tasmin salilamagne tu punar anyaṁ prajāpatiṁ | brahmā sasarja bhūteṣu dakṣiṇāṅguṣṭhato varam | vāme caiva tathā aṅguṣṭhe tasya patnīm athāsṛjat || 2.17 ||
Als (die Welt) in jenen Wassern versunken war, erschuf Brahmā erneut einen anderen Prajāpati unter den Wesen: aus seinem rechten Daumen brachte er den Vorzüglichen hervor; und ebenso schuf er aus seinem linken Daumen dessen Gattin.
Varāha (default narrator-instructor, as speaker not explicit in the fragment)
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmogonic motif in which progenitors (Prajāpatis) are generated after a cosmic inundation, reflecting early medieval Sanskrit narrative theology and genealogical structuring of creation.
No specific terrestrial location is named in this verse; the setting is a cosmological scenario of submersion in primordial waters rather than a mapped sacred geography.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical instruction lies in presenting creation as ordered regeneration after dissolution, a recurrent Purāṇic model for understanding cyclical continuity.
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