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Varaha Purana 142.59: Adhyaya 142, Shloka 59

The Greatness of Esoteric Practice: Menstrual Impurity, Mental Equanimity, and Seasonal Conjugal Ethics

( अनादिमध्यान्तमजं पुराणं रजस्वला देववरं नमामि ॥ ) तत एतेन मन्त्रेण भुक्त्वा देवि रजस्वला ॥ करोति यानि कर्माणि न तैर्दुष्येत कर्हिचित् ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 142.59

(anādimadhyāntam ajaṃ purāṇaṃ rajasvalā devavaraṃ namāmi |) tata etena mantreṇa bhuktvā devi rajasvalā | karoti yāni karmāṇi na tair duṣyeta karhicit ||

पहले उस मंत्र को बोलना है। फिर देवी, जब औरत इस हाल में हो, खाना खा के जो भी काम करे, उससे वो गंदा नहीं होता। कभी भी नहीं।

anādi-madhya-anta-am(having) no beginning, middle, or end
anādi-madhya-anta-am:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootanādi (प्रातिपदिक) + madhya (प्रातिपदिक) + anta (प्रातिपदिक)
Formद्वन्द्व-समास (इतरेतर: beginning-middle-end), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण (of purāṇam)
ajamunborn
ajam:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootaja (अज-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण
purāṇamancient
purāṇam:
Karma (कर्म/object)
TypeAdjective
Rootpurāṇa (पुराण-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), एकवचन; विशेषण/नामवत्
rajasvalāa menstruating woman
rajasvalā:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootrajasvalā (रजस्वला-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nom/1st), एकवचन; कर्तृपद (speaker)
deva-varamthe best of gods
deva-varam:
Karma (कर्म/object)
TypeNoun
Rootdeva (प्रातिपदिक) + vara (प्रातिपदिक)
Formतत्पुरुष-समास (कर्मधारय/षष्ठीभाव: ‘devānāṃ varaḥ’), पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), एकवचन
namāmiI bow to
namāmi:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√nam (नम्)
Formलट् (Present), परस्मैपद, उत्तमपुरुष (1st), एकवचन
tataḥthen/thereafter
tataḥ:
Kriya-viseshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeIndeclinable
Roottataḥ (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (Adverb) = तस्मात्/ततः ‘then/thereafter’
etenawith this
etena:
Karana (करण/instrument)
TypeNoun
Rootetad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formतृतीया (Instr/3rd), एकवचन, पुं/नपुंसकलिङ्ग; ‘with this’
mantreṇaby/with the mantra
mantreṇa:
Karana (करण)
TypeNoun
Rootmantra (मन्त्र-प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (Instr/3rd), एकवचन
bhuktvāhaving eaten
bhuktvā:
Kriya-viseshana (क्रियाविशेषण/absolutive)
TypeVerb
Root√bhuj (भुज्)
Formअव्यय-कृदन्त (Gerund/क्त्वा), ‘having eaten/partaken’
deviO goddess
devi:
Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
TypeNoun
Rootdevī (देवी-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन (Voc/8th), एकवचन
rajasvalāa menstruating woman
rajasvalā:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootrajasvalā (रजस्वला-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (Nom/1st), एकवचन; कर्तृपद
karotidoes
karoti:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√kṛ (कृ)
Formलट् (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन
yāniwhich (things)
yāni:
Karma (कर्म/object)
TypeNoun
Rootyad (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), बहुवचन; सम्बन्धक (relative)
karmāṇiactions
karmāṇi:
Karma (कर्म/object)
TypeNoun
Rootkarman (कर्मन्-प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (Acc/2nd), बहुवचन
nanot
na:
Pratishedha (प्रतिषेध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna (अव्यय)
Formनिषेध (Negation particle)
taiḥby those (acts)
taiḥ:
Karana (करण/instrument)
TypeNoun
Roottad (तद्-सर्वनाम)
Formतृतीया (Instr/3rd), बहुवचन, नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग; ‘by those’
duṣyetawould be defiled
duṣyeta:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Root√duṣ (दुष्)
Formविधिलिङ् (Optative), आत्मनेपद, प्रथमपुरुष (3rd), एकवचन; ‘would be tainted’
karhicitever/at any time
karhicit:
Kriya-viseshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootkarhicit (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय (Adverb) = कदाचित् ‘ever/at any time’

Varāha

C
Classical Literature
P
Purāṇic Ritual Discourse
M
Mantra
T
Textual Anthropology

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It preserves a ritual-legal (customary) discourse on purity status and mantra-mediated exemption, useful for studying historical norms and their textual rationalizations in Purāṇic literature.

No geographic location is named; the focus is ritual status and practice.

The passage frames ritual status as negotiable through prescribed mantra-practice; it documents a tradition’s internal mechanisms for regulating participation rather than offering a universal ethical mandate.

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