Varaha Purana 2.33: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 33
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
ततः स चिन्तयामास अर्वाक्स्रोतस्तु स प्रभुः । अर्वाक्स्रोतसि चोत्पन्ना मनुष्याः साधका मताः ॥ २.३२ ॥
tataḥ sa cintayāmāsa arvāksrotas tu sa prabhuḥ | arvāksrotasi cotpannā manuṣyāḥ sādhakā matāḥ || 2.32 ||
Daraufhin sann jener Herr über den ‘arvāksrotas’ nach, den abwärts fließenden Strom/Zustand. Die Menschen, die im arvāksrotas entstanden, gelten als sādhakas (Übende, Strebende).
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It reflects a Purāṇic scheme of classifying beings and human emergence through technical categories (e.g., srotas), offering evidence for early Indian cosmological anthropology and its Sanskrit terminology.
No explicit geographic place-name appears in this verse; the focus is conceptual (arvāksrotas) rather than a mapped sacred site.
The verse frames humans as ‘sādhakas’—agents capable of disciplined striving—implying an ethical orientation toward self-cultivation and purposeful conduct rather than mere biological existence.
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