Varaha Purana 35.5: Adhyaya 35, Shloka 5
The Account of Soma’s Decline and Restoration, and the Paurṇamāsī Observance
एवं शप्तस्तु दक्षेण सोमो देहं त्यजेदथ । उवाच सोमो दक्षं तु भवानेवं भविष्यति । अनेकजो विहायेमं ब्रह्मदेहं सनातनम् ॥ ३५.५ ॥
evaṁ śaptas tu dakṣeṇa somo dehaṁ tyajed atha | uvāca somo dakṣaṁ tu bhavānevaṁ bhaviṣyati | anekajo vihāyemaṁ brahmadehaṁ sanātanam || 35.5 ||
So würde Soma, von Dakṣa verflucht, daraufhin seinen Leib verlassen. Soma sprach zu Dakṣa: „So wird es auch dir ergehen; nach vielen Geburten wirst auch du diesen uralten, von Brahmā verliehenen Leib aufgeben.“
Soma
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It preserves a Purāṇic narrative motif—curse and counter-statement—used to articulate moral causality and the instability of embodied existence within classical Sanskrit literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is a dialogic, cosmological-ethical exchange between Soma and Dakṣa.
The verse frames embodied status as impermanent and subject to reciprocal consequence, emphasizing that actions (such as cursing) participate in a broader moral-causal order.
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