Varaha Purana 21.41: Adhyaya 21, Shloka 41
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari–Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
देवा रौद्राणि भूतानि निरसन्तो यमालयम् । चिक्षिपुः सायकान् घोरान् असिंश्च सपरश्वधान् ॥ २१.४२ ॥
devā raudrāṇi bhūtāni nirasanto yamālayam | cikṣipuḥ sāyakān ghorān asīṃś ca saparaśvadhān || 21.42 ||
The gods, driving back the fierce beings, advanced toward Yama’s abode; they hurled dreadful arrows and wielded swords and axes.
Varāha (default narrator/instructor voice, not explicit in fragment)
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It exemplifies Purāṇic narrative style where cosmic order is dramatized through conflicts involving divine agents and liminal beings; such passages are useful for studying mythic idiom, martial vocabulary, and conceptions of Yama’s realm in early medieval Sanskrit literature.
No terrestrial geographic site is named here; “Yamālaya” denotes Yama’s abode (a cosmological/otherworldly locus rather than a mapped earthly location).
Implicitly, the verse frames the restoration of order through the restraint or removal of destructive forces; it presents protection of the moral-cosmic balance as a legitimizing rationale for force within the narrative.
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