Varaha Purana 70.6: Adhyaya 70, Shloka 6
Nārāyaṇa as the Sacrificial Principle, Analysis of the Three Guṇas, and the Account of Delusion-Doctrines
महादेवो विरूपाक्षस्त्र्यम्बको नीललोहितः । सोऽपि रौद्रे स्थितः स्थाने बभूव परमेश्वरः ॥ ७०.६ ॥
mahādevo virūpākṣas tryambako nīlalohitaḥ | so 'pi raudre sthitaḥ sthāne babhūva parameśvaraḥ || 70.6 ||
Mahādeva—Virūpākṣa, Tryambaka und Nīlalohita—wahrlich, in der Rudra-Gestalt gegründet und in jener Stellung verweilend, offenbarte sich als der Höchste Herr (Parameśvara).
Varāha (default, as speaker is not explicit in the excerpt)
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It preserves a compact list of Śiva/Rudra epithets (Mahādeva, Virūpākṣa, Tryambaka, Nīlalohita), reflecting Purāṇic-era strategies of cataloguing divine names for liturgical memory and inter-sectarian textual continuity.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on divine epithets and the notion of a specific 'station/state' (sthāna) of Rudra.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse conveys a philosophical instruction about recognizing multiple epithets/forms as referring to a single supreme principle (parameśvara), a common Purāṇic approach to theological unity.
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