Varaha Purana 21.17: Adhyaya 21, Shloka 17
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari–Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
तत्र भागार्थिनो देवा आदित्या वसवस्तथा । विश्वेदेवाः सपितरो गन्धर्वाद्या मरुद्गणाः ॥ २१.१८ ॥
tatra bhāgārthino devā ādityā vasavas tathā | viśvedevāḥ sapitaro gandharvādyā marudgaṇāḥ || 21.18 ||
Là se rassemblèrent les dieux en quête de leur part assignée du sacrifice : les Āditya et aussi les Vasu ; les Viśvedevas avec les Pitṛ (Pères ancestraux) ; ainsi que les Gandharva et d’autres êtres de même ordre, et les cohortes des Marut.
Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It preserves a standard Purāṇic catalog of divine classes (deva-gaṇas), reflecting shared cosmological and ritual vocabularies across early medieval Sanskrit literature.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; it functions as a cosmological/ritual enumeration rather than a topographic reference.
The verse does not present a direct ethical injunction; its primary function is descriptive—situating multiple divine and ancestral groups within a shared framework of 'allotted shares' (bhāga) commonly associated with ritual distribution and cosmic order.
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