Varaha Purana 42.9: Adhyaya 42, Shloka 9
Ritual Procedure for the Phālguna Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī Narasiṃha Worship, with the Narrative of King Vatsa
कालेन गच्छता सोऽथ वसिष्ठेन महर्षिणा । किं कार्यमिति स प्रोक्तो वसस्यास्मिन् महाश्रमे ॥ ४२.९ ॥
kālena gacchatā so ’tha vasiṣṭhena maharṣiṇā | kiṃ kāryam iti sa prokto vasasyāsmin mahāśrame || 42.9 ||
Als die Zeit verging, sprach der große Ṛṣi Vasiṣṭha in diesem großen Āśrama des Vasu zu ihm: „Was ist zu tun; welches Anliegen führt dich hierher?“
Vasiṣṭha (default identification from explicit naming in verse)
FAQs
It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative device: sages in an āśrama setting advancing the plot through formal inquiry (e.g., asking the visitor’s kārya), which also preserves models of learned discourse in early Sanskrit literature.
No specific external pilgrimage site is named here; the verse situates the scene in “Vasu’s great hermitage” (vasasya mahāśrama), an internal narrative location not securely identifiable with a single modern site from this fragment alone.
Implicitly, the verse foregrounds purposeful action (kārya) and accountability within a learned community: one’s presence and actions in a cultural-educational space (āśrama) are expected to have a clear intention and responsibility.
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