Varaha Purana 11.95: Adhyaya 11, Shloka 95
Hospitality at Gauramukha’s Hermitage and the Power of the Wish-Fulfilling Jewel
उन्मत्ताक्षं तथाविध्यत् सुन्दः पञ्चभिराशुगैः । चकर्त च धनुस्तस्य शितेन नतपर्वणा ॥ ११.९६ ॥
unmattākṣaṃ tathāvidhyat sundaḥ pañcabhir āśugaiḥ | cakartta ca dhanus tasya śitena nataparvaṇā || 11.96 ||
सुंद ने उन्मत्ताक्ष पर पाँच तीर चलाए। वो भी बहुत तेज़ी से मारे। फिर उसने एक तेज़ बाण लिया जो मोड़ पे झुका हुआ था। उससे उसका धनुष तोड़ दिया।
Varāha (default narrative voice)
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic narrative technique: concise martial description using stock epithets and weapon-terms, useful for comparing diction across Purāṇas and Itihāsa literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it is focused on a combat action between named figures.
No explicit ethical maxim is stated here; the verse functions primarily as narrative description within a larger episode, where ethical or philosophical framing (if present) would typically appear in surrounding verses.
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