Varaha Purana 122.1: Adhyaya 122, Shloka 1
The Greatness of Kokāmukha
Sacred Site Eulogy and Salvific Narrative
अथ कोकामुखमाहात्म्यम् ॥ वराह उवाच ॥ गुह्यानां परमं गुह्यं तच्छृणुष्व वसुन्धरे ॥ तिर्यग्योनिगताश्चापि येन मुच्यन्ति किल्बिषात्
atha kokāmukha-māhātmyam || varāha uvāca || guhyānāṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva vasundhare || tiryagyonigatāś cāpi yena mucyanti kilbiṣāt
अब मैं कोकमुख का महत्व बताता हूँ। वराह बोले, धरती सुन, यह एक बहुत छुपा हुआ राज़ है। यह सुनो। इससे जानवर जनम वाले भी पाप से आज़ाद हो जाते हैं।
Varāha
Direct address to Vasundharā, inviting her to listen to a secret tīrtha/mahatmya teaching that grants release from kilbiṣa.
None (only the speaker ‘Varāha’ is marked; no śārīrika-varāha-lakṣaṇa stated).
Implicit: What is the supreme secret (parama-guhya) that liberates even non-human births from moral taint?
curious
Divine ‘guhya’ knowledge and tīrtha-māhātmya can effect pāpa-kṣaya beyond ordinary social/biological limitations (even tiryag-yoni).
Approach sacred teachings with receptivity; engage in śravaṇa of māhātmya and associated observances with faith, extending compassion toward all beings as potential recipients of grace.
Varāha Purāṇa: Kokāmukha-māhātmya section opening (this verse functions as adhikāra/saṅkalpa).
FAQs
It introduces a tīrtha-māhātmya unit, a genre used in Purāṇas to preserve place-based cultural memory and ethical-religious practice through narrative framing.
Kokāmukha is named as the focal sacred site; its precise modern identification is not provided in the excerpt and requires cross-textual and regional toponymic study.
The passage frames the forthcoming teaching as a means of moral purification, emphasizing liberation from kilbiṣa as an ethical-spiritual goal.
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