Varaha Purana 170.90 — Adhyaya 170, Shloka 90
The Birth of Gokarṇa and the Fruits of Śiva Worship
including the Śukodara Parrot Episode and Hospitality Ethics
प्रावर्तनं च कूपेषु येन सिञ्चेत्प्रवाटिकाम् ॥ पुष्पाणि च विचिन्वन्ति सर्वास्ता वरयोषितः
prāvarttanaṃ ca kūpeṣu yena siñcetpravāṭikām || puṣpāṇi ca vicinvanti sarvāstā varayoṣitaḥ
Y hay un artefacto para extraer agua de los pozos, con el cual se puede regar un pequeño huerto; y todas aquellas excelentes mujeres recogen flores.
Varāha (default narrative frame)
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"None","karmic_consequence":"None"}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"dharma-in-practice (laukika-sadācāra)","core_concept":"Care for the Earth is enacted through practical maintenance—water-lifting, irrigation, and cultivation—rather than only through ritual.","practical_application":"Treat water as a shared sacred resource: maintain wells, use efficient lifting devices, irrigate modestly, and cultivate flowers/greens without waste."}
Subject Matter: ["Ecology and Water Management","Domestic Landscape (Gardens)","Social Life"]
Primary Rasa: śānta
Secondary Rasa: hāsya
Type: village/household landscape
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa: Mathurā-maṇḍala descriptions often include wells, kuṇḍas, gardens, and groves as markers of tīrtha-culture (general parallel)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A well with a water-lifting device irrigating a small garden-plot; noble women (varayoṣitaḥ) gather flowers among blooming plants.","item_prompts":["stone/brick well (kūpa)","water-lifting device (pulley/lever/rope-bucket or Persian-wheel-like motif)","channels leading to a small garden bed (pravaṭikā)","flowering creepers and trees","women with baskets collecting blossoms","earthen pots, ropes, wooden beams"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: lush green garden around a kūpa; stylized water-lift with rhythmic curves; women in traditional ornaments holding flower-baskets; flat perspective, saturated greens/ochres, delicate linework.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore style: central well and water-lift framed like a shrine panel; gold-leaf highlights on jewelry, flower garlands, and water sheen; rich reds/greens; ornamental borders.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore style: refined pastel palette; detailed textiles and jewelry; gentle garden atmosphere; precise depiction of rope-bucket and irrigation channels; soft shading.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari style: hillside-like garden terraces suggested; lyrical flora; women with baskets in flowing garments; crisp outlines, cool greens, narrative vignette around the well."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"descriptive, contemplative","suggested_raga":"Vasant (or Śuddha Sāraṅg)","pace":"medium-slow","voice_tone":"clear, observational, gently reverential"}
FAQs
It offers a brief but valuable window into everyday infrastructure—well-based irrigation—and cultivated garden spaces, relevant to environmental and agrarian history.
No specific place-name is given; the verse describes general practices applicable to settled communities.
Implicitly, it values care for cultivated spaces and orderly resource use (water drawn and applied for irrigation).
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