Varaha Purana 2.4: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 4
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
श्रीवराह उवाच । सर्गश्च प्रतिसर्गश्च वंशो मन्वन्तराणि च । वंशानुचरितं चैव पुराणं पञ्चलक्षणम् ॥ २.४ ॥
śrīvarāha uvāca | sargaś ca pratisargaś ca vaṃśo manvantarāṇi ca | vaṃśānucaritaṃ caiva purāṇaṃ pañcalakṣaṇam || 2.4 ||
Dijo Śrī Varāha: «La creación (sarga), la recreación (pratisarga), las genealogías (vaṃśa), los ciclos de los Manus (manvantara) y los relatos que siguen a esas estirpes (vaṃśānucarita): en verdad, un Purāṇa se define por estas cinco señales.»
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It preserves the classical purāṇic taxonomy known as the pañcalakṣaṇa model—an important criterion used in Indological and manuscript studies to describe the canonical scope of Purāṇa literature (cosmogony, renewed creation, dynastic genealogy, manvantara chronology, and dynastic narratives).
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is a definitional statement about Purāṇic content-structure rather than a tīrtha or regional description.
The verse primarily provides a classificatory framework rather than a direct ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction is methodological—defining how Purāṇic knowledge is organized across cosmic origins, temporal cycles, and human lineages.
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