Varaha Purana 46.3: Adhyaya 46, Shloka 3
The Rite of the Āṣāḍha Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī Fast and the Installation (Nyāsa) of the Fourfold Manifestation
चक्रपाणयेति भुजौ कण्ठं भूपतये तथा । स्वनाम्ना शङ्खचक्रौ तु पुरुषायेति वै शिरः ॥ ४६.३ ॥
cakrapāṇayeti bhujau kaṇṭhaṃ bhūpataye tathā | svanāmnā śaṅkhacakrau tu puruṣāyeti vai śiraḥ || 46.3 ||
„(Man soll) die beiden Arme als ‚Cakrapāṇi‘ bezeichnen; ebenso den Hals als ‚Bhūpati‘. Muschel und Diskus sind mit ihren eigenen Namen zu nennen; und wahrlich der Kopf als ‚Puruṣa‘.“
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It preserves a Purāṇic-style instructional register where bodily features and divine epithets are systematically correlated, reflecting the development of standardized Vaiṣṇava iconographic vocabulary in medieval Sanskrit textual traditions.
No geographic location is specified in this verse; the content is primarily iconographic/ritual-terminological rather than topographical.
Rather than an explicit moral rule, the verse provides a philosophical-ritual instruction: disciplined naming and conceptual alignment of the body and emblematic attributes with recognized epithets, emphasizing ordered knowledge and symbolic coherence.
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