Varaha Purana 12.8: Adhyaya 12, Shloka 8
Supratīka’s Hymn to Rāma and the Granting of a Boon through Divine Manifestation
कौर्मं तथा ते वपुरास्थितः सदा युगे युगे माधव तोयमन्थने । न चान्यदस्तीति भवत्समं क्वचिज्जनार्दनाद्यः स्वयं भूतमुत्तमम् ॥ १२.८ ॥
kaurmaṃ tathā te vapur āsthitaḥ sadā yuge yuge mādhava toyamanthane | na cānyad astīti bhavatsamaṃ kvacij janārdanād yaḥ svayaṃ bhūtam uttamam || 12.8 ||
माधव, तुम हर युग में कछुआ बनते हो जब समुंदर मथन होता है। तुम जैसा कोई नहीं, जनार्दन। तुम सबसे बड़े हो।
Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It preserves a widely attested Purāṇic motif—the Kūrma (tortoise) manifestation associated with the churning of the cosmic ocean—illustrating how the Varāha Purāṇa participates in shared Sanskrit mythic-historiographical memory across Purāṇic corpora.
No specific terrestrial location is named in this verse; the setting is cosmological (the ‘waters’ being churned), a mythic space rather than a mapped pilgrimage site.
The verse primarily conveys a philosophical instruction of recognizing a singular supreme principle (uttamam bhūtam) behind recurring cosmic cycles (yuge yuge), emphasizing continuity and order rather than a prescriptive social rule.
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