Varaha Purana 122.50: Adhyaya 122, Shloka 50
The Greatness of Kokāmukha
Sacred Site Eulogy and Salvific Narrative
Pūrva Bhāga · Autobiographical/Previous-birth Account (narrative disclosure)
स्वपूर्वजन्मवृत्तं तु देवानामपि दुर्लभम् ॥ तत्र ते कथयिष्यामि सर्ववृत्तमनिन्दिते ॥
svapūrvajanma-vṛttaṃ tu devānām api durlabham | tatra te kathayiṣyāmi sarva-vṛttam anindite ||
svapUrvajanmavRRittaM tu devAnAmapi dularbham || tatra te kathayiShyAmi sarvavRRittamanindite
मैं तुम्हे अपना पहले जनम की कहानी सुनाऊंगा। यह बात देवताओं के लिए भी मुश्किल है मिलना। वहाँ मैं तुम्हे पूरा किस्सा बताऊंगा, तुम कोई दोष नहीं हो।
Sandhi Notes
- svapūrvajanma-vṛttam is a multi-member compound
- sarva-vṛttam anindite: no sandhi beyond word boundary
Varāha
Curious, receptive; positioned as the blameless listener seeking understanding of cosmic-ethical causality
What was your former-birth account, and what complete sequence of events (sarva-vṛtta) explains the present teaching?
Rare knowledge (durlabha) becomes accessible through guru–śiṣya dialogue; the past (pūrva-janma) is invoked to ground ethics/cosmology in causality.
Approach dharma and cosmological questions through śravaṇa (listening) to complete narratives, not fragments; treat ‘former-birth’ accounts as moral-causal explanations rather than mere story.
Addressing Bhū-devī as an interlocutor; offering to narrate a prior-birth account for her understanding.
Varāha–Bhū dialogue frame (pravacana style) continuing into the promised ‘sarva-vṛtta’ narrative
FAQs
It signals a Purāṇic knowledge-claim strategy: presenting the forthcoming narrative as rare (durlabha) and thus worthy of preservation and transmission.
No specific location is fixed here; the verse prepares for narration that, in surrounding passages, is linked with Kokāmukha.
Valuing truthful, complete recounting (sarva-vṛtta) and respectful address to the interlocutor.
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