Varaha Purana 139.42: Adhyaya 139, Shloka 42
The Glory of Varāha’s Rite: Merits of Cow-dung Plastering, Sweeping, Singing, Instrumental Music, and Dance
with a Truth-Vow Exemplum
मिथ्या किं भाषसे मूढ पुनरेष्यामि तेऽन्तिकम् ॥ मृत्योर्मुखमनुप्राप्य पुनर्जीवति मानवः ॥
mithyā kiṃ bhāṣase mūḍha punar eṣyāmi te'ntikam || mṛtyor mukham anuprāpya punar jīvati mānavaḥ ||
तू झूठ क्यों बोल रहा है, बेवकूफ? मैं वापस आ जाऊँगा तुम्हारे पास। मौत के मुँह में जाके कोई इंसान दोबारा जीता है क्या?
Brahmarākṣasa (rākṣasa figure responding skeptically)
FAQs
It illustrates a common Purāṇic rhetorical move: testing truth-claims by invoking death’s finality, thereby setting up a later vindication of satya (truth).
None; the focus is philosophical (mortality and credibility).
The passage foregrounds the moral problem of truth versus deception, questioning whether promises will be honored when survival is at stake.
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