Varaha Purana 5.8: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 8
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
सोऽब्रवीद् देवसमितिर्वर्तते ब्रह्मणो गृहे । एवं श्रुत्वा वसुस् तस्थौ द्वारि ब्रह्मौकसस् तदा । तावत् तत्रैव रैभ्यस् तु आजगाम महातपाः ॥ ५.८ ॥
so ’bravīd deva-samitir vartate brahmaṇo gṛhe | evaṃ śrutvā vasus tasthau dvāri brahmaukasaḥ tadā | tāvat tatraiva raibhyas tu ājagāma mahā-tapāḥ || 5.8 ||
Er sprach: „Die Versammlung der Götter findet im Hause Brahmās statt.“ Als Vasu dies hörte, stand er am Tor der Wohnstatt Brahmās. Indessen kam ebendort der große Asket Raibhya an.
Varāha (default narrative frame; explicit speaker not stated in this fragment)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative device: situating events within a formal “assembly of the gods” in Brahmā’s residence, which functions as a cosmological court setting for transmitting authority and decisions in mythic history.
No terrestrial geographic site is specified; the setting is Brahmā’s dwelling (a cosmological locus rather than a mappable historical place).
No direct ethical injunction is stated in this verse; it primarily establishes narrative context—protocol (standing at the threshold) and the arrival of a revered ascetic—often used in Purāṇas to signal legitimacy and orderly transmission of discourse.
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