Varaha Purana 139.65: Adhyaya 139, Shloka 65
The Glory of Varāha’s Rite: Merits of Cow-dung Plastering, Sweeping, Singing, Instrumental Music, and Dance
with a Truth-Vow Exemplum
एतानि मम गात्राणि भक्षयस्व यथेष्टतः॥ पिबोष्णं रुधिरं मह्यं पीडितोऽसि क्षुधा भृशम्
etāni mama gātrāṇi bhakṣayasva yatheṣṭataḥ || piboṣṇaṃ rudhiraṃ mahyaṃ pīḍito'si kṣudhā bhṛśam
मेरा बदन खा ले, जैसे मर्ज़ी। मेरा गरम खून पी ले। तुझे भूख बहुत लगी है न।
Śvapāka
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It exemplifies a dramatic rhetorical mode common in Sanskrit narrative ethics, using bodily self-offering to foreground moral steadfastness.
No geographic location is identified.
The verse intensifies the theme of uncompromising commitment, portraying aid to another—even at personal cost—as consistent with the speaker’s vow.
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