Varaha Purana 9.10: Adhyaya 9, Shloka 10
The Sequence of Creation, the Emergence of the Praṇava, and the Fish Incarnation’s Retrieval of the Vedas
अपरं भुवनं प्रायान्मध्ये भास्करसन्निभम् । पुराणपुरुषो व्याप्य पद्मकोशे व्यवस्थितः ॥ ९.१० ॥
aparaṁ bhuvanaṁ prāyān madhye bhāskara-sannibham | purāṇa-puruṣo vyāpya padma-kośe vyavasthitaḥ || 9.10 ||
Weiter voranschreitend erblickt man eine andere Weltregion, in der Mitte sonnenähnlich strahlend; dort ist der Purāṇa-Puruṣa, die uranfängliche Person, die alles durchdringt, im Kelch des Lotos gegründet.
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmological motif—radiant central realms and the lotus as an organizing image—useful for tracing how late-epic Sanskrit literature systematized older Vedic and post-Vedic cosmography.
No specific terrestrial location is named here; the verse describes a cosmological “world-region” (bhuvana) characterized by sun-like radiance and a lotus-calyx locus.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; philosophically, it emphasizes pervasion (vyāpya) and ordered dwelling (vyavasthitaḥ), themes often used to frame cosmic order and coherence.
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