Varaha Purana 126.49: Adhyaya 126, Shloka 49
The Greatness of Kubjāmraka: Raibhya’s Boon and the Teaching on the Sacred Tīrthas
पाणिं जग्राह विधिवन्मत्प्रसादाद्वसुन्धरे ।। कोसलाधिपतेश्चापि राज्ञः प्राग्ज्योतिषस्य च
pāṇiṃ jagrāha vidhivan mat-prasādād vasundhare || kosalādhipateś cāpi rājñaḥ prāgjyotiṣasya ca
वसुंधरा, मेरी खुशी से उसने सही तरीके से हाथ पकड़ा। यह बात कोसल के राजा और प्राग्ज्योतिष के राजा के बारे में है।
Varāha (default, speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It preserves a narrative memory of political alliances and legitimizing rites (hand-taking), a frequent Purāṇic strategy for connecting moral causality with dynastic history.
Prāgjyotiṣa is named, often identified in scholarship with an ancient polity in the northeast (commonly associated with the Kāmarūpa/Assam region), though identifications vary by source.
The verse frames social order as sustained through proper rites (vidhivat) and reconciliation (prasāda), suggesting legitimacy depends on both procedure and moral alignment.
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