Varaha Purana 46.9: Adhyaya 46, Shloka 9
The Rite of the Āṣāḍha Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī Fast and the Installation (Nyāsa) of the Fourfold Manifestation
पृथिवी देवसमितौ मया दृष्टा यदूत्तम । गत्वा च जल्पती भारं न शक्ताऽऽहितुं सुराः ॥ ४६.९ ॥
pṛthivī devasamitau mayā dṛṣṭā yadūttama | gatvā ca jalpatī bhāraṃ na śaktā ūhituṃ surāḥ || 46.9 ||
O Bester der Yadus, ich sah die Erde in der Versammlung der Götter; als sie dorthin gelangte, sprach sie von ihrer Bedrängnis: Die Götter vermochten diese Last nicht zu tragen.
Varāha (default dialogue framework; instructor-narrator voice addressing a Yadu-descendant interlocutor)
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It preserves a common Purāṇic narrative unit: Earth personified approaches the gods to report an unsustainable burden, framing later restorative action (pṛthivī-uddhāra) within a cosmic political assembly (devasamiti).
No specific terrestrial location is named in this verse; the setting is the devasamitī (the gods’ assembly), a cosmological rather than geographic locus.
The verse foregrounds the idea of limits to “burden-bearing,” supporting an ecological-ethical reading: when the world’s load becomes excessive, responsible governance and corrective action are implied rather than continued extraction or neglect.
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