Varaha Purana 67.7: Adhyaya 67, Shloka 7
On the Two ‘Sita-Kṛṣṇā’ Figures, the Sevenfold Ocean, and the Twelvefold Year
दाम्पत्यं तदहोरात्रं सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ ततः । ततो जगत्समुत्तस्थौ देवस्यास्य नृपोत्तम ॥ ६७.७ ॥
dāmpatyaṃ tad ahorātraṃ sūryācandramasau tataḥ | tato jagat samuttasthau devasyāsya nṛpottama || 67.7 ||
Daraus entstand die eheliche Vereinigung; daraus Tag und Nacht; dann Sonne und Mond. Danach trat die Welt hervor—o bester der Könige—und alles gehört dieser Gottheit.
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic cosmological style that narrates the emergence of temporal order (day/night) and luminaries (Sun/Moon) as stages in the unfolding of the world, a common template in early medieval Sanskrit compendia.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the content is cosmological rather than topographical.
The verse does not present a direct ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction is cosmological—linking the ordered world (time and luminaries) to a single overarching divine principle.
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