Varaha Purana 13.12: Adhyaya 13, Shloka 12
The Genealogy of the Pitṛs and the Determination of Śrāddha Times
मां यजस्वेति तेनोक्तास्तदा ते परमेष्ठिना । आत्मनात्मानमेवाग्रे अयजन्त इति श्रुतिः ॥ १३.१२ ॥
māṁ yajasveti tenoktās tadā te parameṣṭhinā | ātmanātmānam evāgre ayajanta iti śrutiḥ || 13.12 ||
Alors Parameṣṭhin (le Suprême Ordonnateur) leur dit : « Sacrifiez pour Moi ». À ce sujet, la śruti affirme qu’au commencement ils accomplirent un sacrifice où le Soi seul fut offert par le Soi.
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in the excerpt)
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It preserves a Purāṇic paraphrase of a Vedic-style formulation (śruti), showing how later Sanskrit narrative literature integrates and re-frames Vedic ritual language to explain origins and cosmic order.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is cosmogonic and ritual-philosophical rather than topographical.
The verse foregrounds a philosophical model of offering and self-discipline: the act of yajña is framed as an inward, self-referential sacrifice (the Self offered by the Self), emphasizing interiorized responsibility rather than external compulsion.
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