Varaha Purana 14.5: Adhyaya 14, Shloka 5
Ritual Procedure for Śrāddha: Sequence, Eligibility, and Offerings to Ancestors
मित्रध्रुक् कुनखी चैव श्यावदन्तस्तथा द्विजः । कन्यादूषयिता वह्निवेदोज्झः सोमविक्रयी ॥ १४.५ ॥
mitradhruk kunakhī caiva śyāvadantas tathā dvijaḥ | kanyādūṣayitā vahnivedojjhaḥ somavikrayī || 14.5 ||
जो दोस्त को धोखा दे, जिसके नाख बिगड़े हुए हों, जिसके दाँत काले हों। जो किसी लड़की के साथ गलत हरकत करे। जो अग्नि और वेद को छोड़ दे, जो सोम बेचता फिरे। ऐसे लोग ठीक नहीं हैं।
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic cataloging style that overlaps with Dharma-śāstric discourse, listing behaviors and ritual violations treated as socially and morally censurable within premodern normative literature.
No geographic location is explicitly named in this verse; it is a thematic ethical list rather than a sacred-geography passage.
The verse frames betrayal, sexual violation, neglect of ritual/Vedic obligations, and commodification of soma as serious transgressions, functioning as a cautionary ethical taxonomy.
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