Varaha Purana 135.13: Adhyaya 135, Shloka 13
Prescriptions for Expiation of Offences: Red/Black Garments, Improper Touch in Darkness, Impure Leftovers, Eating Boar-Meat, and Consuming Jālapāda
Uttara Bhāga · Dharma-śāstra / Prāyaścitta (Expiation) Narratives
एकाहारस्ततो भूत्वा निषीदेत्च जलाशनः ॥ ततो यवान्नं भुञ्जीत गोमूत्रेण तु पाचितम् ॥
ekāhāras tato bhūtvā niṣīdec ca jalāśanaḥ | tato yavānnaṁ bhuñjīta gomūtreṇa tu pācitam ||
ekAhArastato bhUtvA niShIdechcha jalAshanaH || tato yavAnnaM bhu~njIta gomUtreNa tu pAchitam
एक वक्त का खाना खाओ, बस इतना ही। पानी पी के बैठो। बाद में जे का खाना खाओ, जो गाय के गोबर से पकाया हो।
Varāha addressing Pṛthivī
Focused on practical observance details; concerned with purity
What exact dietary regimen and purificatory food preparation should be followed to complete the expiation?
Purification is not merely symbolic; it is enacted through disciplined bodily regimen that reshapes desire and restores order.
Adopt simplified diet and controlled intake during corrective periods; pair physical austerity with ethical resolve to prevent recurrence.
Varāha gives Bhū-devī concrete dietary steps of prāyaścitta, emphasizing austerity and ritual purity substances.
Cow-derived purifiers (gomūtra) and barley (yava) evoke śrauta-smārta purity logic: returning to ‘simple sattvic’ sustenance as ritual cleansing; Varāha as yajña-persona sanctions purificatory substances.
Yava as oblation-grade grain; gomūtra as purifier akin to consecrating waters—diet becomes internal yajña to burn residual pāpa.
Embodied discipline supports inner clarity; purification of annamaya-kośa aids steadiness of mind for dharma and devotion.
Continue ekāhāra; subsist on water at a stage, then eat yava (barley) cooked with gomūtra as a purificatory diet in the expiation.
Austere, purificatory diet reduces ritual impurity and karmic taint; disregard implies incomplete expiation and lingering doṣa.
Within the ongoing expiation sequence; specific tithi not stated in this verse
Purification enabling the broader promised fruit of restored dharma and higher gati stated in the sequence.
Varāha Purāṇa 135.11–13 (mental resolve, durations, Dvādaśī linkage)
FAQs
It preserves a specific expiatory dietary protocol, useful for historians of ritual practice and food/purity concepts in medieval Sanskrit literature.
No geographic location is named; the content is procedural (dietary and ascetic regimen).
Ethical repair is articulated through controlled consumption and prescribed restraint, emphasizing discipline as a means of rectification.
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