Varaha Purana 122.41: Adhyaya 122, Shloka 41
The Greatness of Kokāmukha
Sacred Site Eulogy and Salvific Narrative
Uttara Bhāga · Narrative Dialogue (Limits of remedies; return speech)
कुर्वन्ति तव कर्माणि वेदना च न गच्छति ॥ एवं स प्रियया प्रोक्तस्तां प्रियां पुनरब्रवीत् ॥
kurvanti tava karmāṇi vedanā ca na gacchati || evaṃ sa priyayā proktas tāṃ priyāṃ punar abravīt ||
kurvanti tava karmANi vedanA cha na gachChati || evaM sa priyayA proktastAM priyAM punarabravIt
वो सब तुम्हारा इलाज करते हैं, लेकिन दर्द जाता नहीं। जब उसने यह कहा, पति ने फिर से उससे जवाब दिया।
Sandhi Notes
- प्रिया+आ→प्रियया (instr.sg.)
- प्रोक्तः+ताम्→प्रोक्तस्ताम्
- पुनः+अब्रवीत्→पुनरब्रवीत्
Narrator (transitioning to the husband’s reply)
Continuing pain; the complaint is validated by narrative framing
Why does pain remain even when proper actions/treatments are performed?
External interventions may fail to remove duḥkha, preparing the ground for a deeper teaching on embodied existence and saṃsāra.
Use repeated failure of superficial cures as a prompt to seek inner discipline, right understanding, and spiritual remedy.
VP 122.42 (beloved’s appeal); VP 122.44-45 (reply: human condition; saṃsāra ocean)
FAQs
It illustrates how Purāṇic narratives integrate everyday realities (illness, treatment) to set up philosophical reflection or moral instruction.
No geographic location is explicitly identified in this verse.
It suggests that not all suffering is resolved by technical intervention alone, prompting deeper inquiry.
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