Varaha Purana 137.140: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 140
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
मम पूर्वकथां वीर दुष्टकर्मानुसारिणीम् ॥ ततो भार्यावचः श्रुत्वा कलिङ्गानां जनाधिपः ॥
mama pūrva-kathāṃ vīra duṣṭa-karmānusāriṇīm || tato bhāryā-vacaḥ śrutvā kaliṅgānāṃ janādhipaḥ
हे वीर, मैंने तुम्हे पहले बताया था उस आदमी के बारे में जो बुरी हरकतें करता था। कलिंग के राजा ने उसकी बीवी की बात सुनी। फिर उसने वैसा ही किया।
Varāha (default framework; narrative voice reporting events)
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It preserves the ethnogeographic name “Kaliṅga,” useful for mapping how Purāṇic narratives embed regional polities within moral storytelling frameworks.
Kaliṅga is identified—an ancient region broadly associated with parts of present-day Odisha and adjoining areas in eastern India (scholarly identification is regional rather than a single site).
The verse frames moral causality through narrative recollection: hearing accounts of harmful conduct (duṣṭa-karma) functions as a prompt for reflection and corrective action.
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