Varaha Purana 142.30: Adhyaya 142, Shloka 30
The Greatness of Esoteric Practice: Menstrual Impurity, Mental Equanimity, and Seasonal Conjugal Ethics
पितरस्तस्य हन्यन्ते दश पूर्वा दशापराः ॥ न तत्र कामलोभेन मोहेन च वसुन्धरे ॥
pitaras tasya hanyante daśa pūrvā daśāparāḥ | na tatra kāmalobhena mohena ca vasundhare ||
जो गलत टाइम करता है, उसके पिताजी भी दुख पाते हैं। दस पहले वाले और दस बाद वाले, सब तकलीफ में आते हैं। धरती, लालच और बेवकूफी में मत फंसना।
Varāha
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It reflects a common Purāṇic-Dharmaśāstra motif: individual conduct is framed as affecting ancestral lineages, reinforcing social ethics through intergenerational consequence language.
No geographic location is named.
Avoid actions driven by desire, greed, and delusion—especially in contexts governed by prescribed norms—because they are portrayed as carrying wider social and ancestral consequences.
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