Varaha Purana 49.2: Adhyaya 49, Shloka 2
The Padmanābha Dvādaśī Observance, with the Eulogy of Lamp-Offering Merit
पद्मनाभाय पादौ तु कटिं वै पद्मयोनये । उदरं सर्वदेवाय पुष्कराक्षाय वै उरः । अव्ययाय तथा पाणिं प्राग्वदस्त्राणि पूजयेत् ॥ ४९.२ ॥
padmanābhāya pādau tu kaṭiṃ vai padmayonaye | udaraṃ sarvadevāya puṣkarākṣāya vai uraḥ | avyayāya tathā pāṇiṃ prāgvad astrāṇi pūjayet || 49.2 ||
On doit accomplir le nyāsa (assignation rituelle des membres) : les pieds à Padmanābha, la taille à Padmayoni, le ventre à Sarvadeva et la poitrine à Puṣkarākṣa ; de même, la ou les mains à Avyaya. Comme il a été dit auparavant, on doit aussi adorer les astras (mantras-armes rituels) associés.
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It preserves a technical snapshot of Purāṇic ritual vocabulary—divine epithets, bodily loci (aṅga), and the worship of astras—useful for comparing later Vaiṣṇava pūjā manuals and mantra-prayoga traditions.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily ritual-technical rather than topographical.
The verse emphasizes disciplined, methodical practice—performing worship with ordered attention to prescribed correspondences rather than improvisation.
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