Varaha Purana 49.24: Adhyaya 49, Shloka 24
The Padmanābha Dvādaśī Observance, with the Eulogy of Lamp-Offering Merit
इयं तु पत्नी ते जाता पुरा वैश्यस्य दासिका । पारक्यस्यापि दीपस्य ज्वालितस्य हरेर्गृहे ॥ ४९.२४ ॥
iyaṃ tu patnī te jātā purā vaiśyasya dāsikā | pārakyasyāpi dīpasya jvālitasya harer gṛhe || 49.24 ||
Doch diese Frau, die deine Gattin geworden ist, war einst ein Dienstmädchen im Hause eines Vaiśya; ja, sie entzündete sogar den Lichtspender eines anderen im Hause Haris.
Varāha (default speaker within the Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework; not explicitly marked in the excerpt)
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It preserves a narrative detail about domestic labor (dāsikā) and household life, offering a small window into social roles and status-markers as represented in Purāṇic storytelling.
No specific place-name appears in this verse; the setting is described generically as a household (gṛha), including a reference to “the house of Hari,” which functions as a devotional or institutional identifier rather than a geographic toponym here.
The verse foregrounds prior social identity and domestic conduct as morally relevant narrative facts, implying that personal history and actions within households may be invoked in ethical evaluation within the surrounding discourse.
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