Varaha Purana 139.15: Adhyaya 139, Shloka 15

The Glory of Varāha’s Rite: Merits of Cow-dung Plastering, Sweeping, Singing, Instrumental Music, and Dance

with a Truth-Vow Exemplum

Devanagari script

तावद्वर्षसहस्राणि स्वर्गलोके महीयते॥ स्वर्गलोकात्परिभ्रष्टः क्रौचद्वीपं च गच्छति॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 139.15

Transliteration

tāvad varṣasahasrāṇi svargaloke mahīyate || svargalokāt paribhraṣṭaḥ kraucadvīpaṃ ca gacchati ||

Translation

उतनी ही हज़ार साल के लिए वो स्वर्ग में रहता है, वहाँ इज़्ज़त पाता है। फिर स्वर्ग से गिर के वो क्रौंच-द्वीप में जाता है।

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Word by Word

• tāvat: for that much (time)
• tāvat: Kāla-parimāṇa (काल-परिमाण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tāvat (अव्यय/प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: अव्यय; परिमाण/कालवाचक (measure/extent adverb)

• varṣa-sahasrāṇi: thousands of years
• varṣa-sahasrāṇi: Kāla-adhikaraṇa (काल-अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: varṣa (प्रातिपदिक) + sahasra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (neuter), प्रथमा/द्वितीया (Nom/Acc), बहुवचन (plural); षष्ठी-तत्पुरुष (varṣāṇāṃ sahasrāṇi)

• svargaloke: in heaven-world
• svargaloke: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: svarga (प्रातिपदिक) + loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), सप्तमी (Locative), एकवचन (singular); तत्पुरुष-समास

• mahīyate: is honored / is glorified
• mahīyate: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √mah (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular), आत्मनेपद; कर्मणि/भावे प्रयोग (passive/medio-passive sense)

• svargalokāt: from heaven-world
• svargalokāt: Apādāna (अपादान)
• Type: Noun
• Root: svarga (प्रातिपदिक) + loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), पञ्चमी (Ablative), एकवचन (singular); तत्पुरुष-समास

• paribhraṣṭaḥ: having fallen away / fallen down
• paribhraṣṭaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pari + √bhraṃś (धातु) → paribhraṣṭa (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past passive participle, क्त), पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), प्रथमा (Nominative), एकवचन (singular); विशेषण (of saḥ/implicit person)

• krauca-dvīpam: Krauñca-dvīpa
• krauca-dvīpam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: krauca (प्रातिपदिक) + dvīpa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग (masculine), द्वितीया (Accusative), एकवचन (singular); तत्पुरुष-समास (name of a continent/island)

• ca: and
• ca: Samuccaya (समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक (conjunction)

• gacchati: goes
• gacchati: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √gam (धातु)
• Form: लट् (Present), प्रथमपुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular), परस्मैपद

Speaker

Varāha

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Vaishnavism
• Purāṇic Cosmography
• Ancient Geography

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It preserves a layered cosmological map (svarga → dvīpa realms) used to narrate moral causality and the temporality of rewards.

Which geographic location is identified?

Krauñca-dvīpa is a Purāṇic cosmographical region; scholarly identification with modern geography is uncertain and typically treated as mythic-cosmological.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

Ethical acts yield extended results across multiple states of existence, but rewards are still depicted as temporally bounded.