Varaha Purana 137.64: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 64
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
यस्य दोषेण मेऽप्येषा रुजा शिरसि संस्थिता ॥ काञ्चीराजकुले जन्म पित्रा दत्ता तव प्रिया
yasya doṣeṇa me 'py eṣā rujā śirasi saṃsthitā || kāñcīrājakule janma pitrā dattā tava priyā
किसी की गलती से मेरे सर में दर्द हो गया है। वो कांची के राजपरिवार में पैदा हुई है। उसके बाप ने उसे तुम्हे दिया है। वो तुम्हारी प्यारी है।
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It includes a toponymic and dynastic marker (Kāñcī royal lineage), which can assist in mapping Purāṇic geographical imagination and later reception history.
Kāñcī (commonly identified with Kāñcīpuram in Tamil Nadu in modern scholarship), referenced here via “kāñcīrājakula.”
The verse frames suffering as linked to doṣa (fault), reflecting a moral-causal worldview common in Purāṇic narrative ethics.
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