Varaha Purana 29.1: Adhyaya 29, Shloka 1
The Birth and Marriages of the Direction-Goddesses and the Daśamī Observance
महातपा उवाच । शृणु राजन्नवहितः प्रजापाल कथामिमाम् । यदा दिशः समुत्पन्नाः श्रोत्रेभ्यः पृथिवीपते ॥ २९.१ ॥
mahātapā uvāca | śṛṇu rājann avahitaḥ prajāpāla kathām imām | yadā diśaḥ samutpannāḥ śrotrebhyaḥ pṛthivīpate || 29.1 ||
Mahātapā sprach: „Höre, o König, aufmerksam und wachsam zu, o Beschützer der Untertanen, diese Erzählung. (Sie berichtet von der Zeit,) als die Himmelsrichtungen aus den Ohren hervorgingen, o Herr der Erde.“
Mahātapā
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It reflects a common Purāṇic cosmological idiom in which cosmic structures (such as the directions) are explained through symbolic origins linked to sensory faculties, illustrating how early Sanskrit literature mapped the world through anthropomorphic and metaphoric frameworks.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it introduces a cosmological theme (the emergence of the directions) rather than a pilgrimage place or region.
The verse foregrounds the ideal of attentive, disciplined listening by a ruler—addressing the king as “protector of subjects”—framing knowledge transmission as a responsibility tied to governance and care for the polity.
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