Varaha Purana 136.103: Adhyaya 136, Shloka 103
A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions
Uttara Bhāga · Karmic Consequences and Restoration (Prāyaścitta Outcome)
एकजन्म भवेदन्धो मूषको जायते पुनः ॥ तारितो ह्येष संसाराज्जायते विपुले कुले ॥
ekajanma bhaved andho mūṣako jāyate punaḥ || tārito hyeṣa saṃsārāj jāyate vipule kule ||
ekajanma bhavedandho mUShako jAyate punaH || tArito hyeSha saMsArAjjAyate vipule kule
एक जनम में वो अंधा होता है, एक में चूहा। लेकिन जब इसका मुक्ति होता है, तो वो अच्छे घर में पैदा होता है। बड़े घर में पैदा होने का मतलब है उसके पाप साफ हो गए।
Sandhi Notes
- ह्येष → हि + एषः
- संसाराज्जायते → संसारात् + जायते (त् + ज → ज्ज)
Varāha
Karmic descent is real, yet dharma and expiation can reverse trajectory; ‘tāraṇa’ implies possibility of liberation/uplift beyond prior faults.
Do not despair after wrongdoing; undertake prescribed prāyaścitta with sincerity, reform conduct, and seek devotion-oriented purification.
Even after painful and low rebirths (blindness, mouse-birth), one can be ‘delivered from saṃsāra’ and regain auspicious birth through efficacious expiation/rite.
Negligence (implied): suffering and low births; successful expiation/turn to dharma: release from saṃsāric bondage and birth in a noble family (as a sign of uplift).
Varāha Purāṇa 136.113 (low births); Varāha Purāṇa 136.115 (promise to teach prāyaścitta)
FAQs
It juxtaposes negative karmic results with the possibility of reversal through deliverance, reflecting Purāṇic synthesis of moral causality and redemptive frameworks.
No geographic reference appears here.
Moral failure is depicted as producing suffering, but corrective paths (implied by the surrounding prāyaścitta context) are presented as enabling restoration.
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