Varaha Purana 5.48: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 48
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
द्यावापृथिव्योरिदमन्तरं हि व्याप्तं शरीरेण दिशश्च सर्वाः । तमीद्यामीशं जगतां प्रसूतिं जनार्दनं तं प्रणतोऽस्मि नित्यम् ॥ ५.४८ ॥
dyāvāpṛthivyor idam antaraṃ hi vyāptaṃ śarīreṇa diśaś ca sarvāḥ | tam īḍyām īśaṃ jagatāṃ prasūtiṃ janārdanaṃ taṃ praṇato ’smi nityam || 5.48 ||
Wahrlich, der Raum zwischen Himmel und Erde ist von seinem eigenen Leib durchdrungen, ebenso alle Himmelsrichtungen. Vor jenem preiswürdigen Herrn, dem Souverän und Ursprung der Welten—Janārdana—verneige ich mich unablässig.
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic hymn-style (stuti) that uses cosmological totality—heaven, earth, and the directions—to express divine pervasion, reflecting pan-Indian Sanskrit literary conventions of late-classical religious literature.
No specific terrestrial pilgrimage site is named here; the verse employs universal cosmographic markers (heaven, earth, and all directions) rather than a localized sacred geography.
The verse models continual humility and reverential acknowledgment of a cosmic order (pervasion and origin of worlds), presented as a philosophical posture rather than a prescriptive social rule.
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