Varaha Purana 41.32: Adhyaya 41, Shloka 32
Rite of the Varāha Dvādaśī Vow and an Exemplary Narrative on Expiation for Brahmin-Slaying
पाताले सुतलाख्ये च यथा धात्री निमज्जती । उद्धृता देवदेवेन विष्णुना क्रोडमूर्त्तिना ॥ ४१.३२ ॥
pātāle sutalākhye ca yathā dhātrī nimajjati | uddhṛtā devadevena viṣṇunā kroḍamūrttinā || 41.32 ||
Als die Erde (Dhātrī) in Pātāla hinabsank, in das Reich namens Sutala, wurde sie von Viṣṇu—dem Gott der Götter—emporgehoben, der die Gestalt eines Ebers angenommen hatte.
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It preserves a core Purāṇic motif—Earth’s submergence and restoration—used across early Sanskrit literature to express cosmic renewal and the stabilization of the world-order (dharma) through mythic narration.
Sutala is named as a realm within Pātāla (the netherworld). In scholarship it is treated as a mythic-cosmographic location rather than a directly mappable terrestrial site.
The verse frames Earth as a valued, protectable entity and presents restoration (uddhāra) as an ideal response to ecological or cosmic disruption—an ethic of safeguarding and re-stabilizing the world.
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