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Varaha Purana 144.23: Adhyaya 144, Shloka 23

The Māhātmya of Someśvara and Related Liṅgas: The Liberation-Field of Triveṇī and the Śālagrāma Sacred Landscape

वह्निसोमार्क नयनं मनोवाचामगोचरम् ॥ जटाजूटप्रकटितं गङ्गासम्मार्ज्जितांहसम्

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 144.23

vahnīsōmārka nayanaṃ manovācāmagocharam || jaṭājūṭaprakaṭitaṃ gaṅgāsammārjjitāṃhasam

उनकी आँखें अग्नि, चाँद और सूरज जैसी हैं। इनके बारे में सोचना भी मुश्किल है, बोलना तो दूर की बात है। उनके बाल जटा में बंधे हैं। गंगा उनके ऊपर से बहती है और उनकी बुराई धुल देती है।

वह्निfire
वह्नि:
सम्बन्ध (Sambandha/Compound member)
TypeNoun
Rootवह्नि (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/समासपूर्वपद-रूप (stem form in compound)
सोमmoon
सोम:
सम्बन्ध (Sambandha/Compound member)
TypeNoun
Rootसोम (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/समासपूर्वपद-रूप (stem form in compound)
अर्कsun
अर्क:
सम्बन्ध (Sambandha/Compound member)
TypeNoun
Rootअर्क (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/समासपूर्वपद-रूप (stem form in compound)
नयनम्eye
नयनम्:
कर्म (Karma/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootनयन (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेष्य: ‘eye’
मनोवाचाम्of mind and speech
मनोवाचाम्:
सम्बन्ध (Sambandha/Genitive)
TypeNoun
Rootमनस्-वाच् (प्रातिपदिक; मनस् + वाच्)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग (वाच्-प्रधान), षष्ठी-विभक्ति (Genitive), बहुवचन; इतरेतर-द्वन्द्व: ‘of mind and speech’
अगोचरम्beyond reach (of)
अगोचरम्:
कर्म (Karma/Object)
TypeAdjective
Rootअ-गोचर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेषण: ‘not within range’
जटाजूटप्रकटितम्manifested by the matted locks
जटाजूटप्रकटितम्:
कर्म (Karma/Object)
TypeAdjective
Rootजटा-जूट-प्रकटित (प्रातिपदिक; जटा + जूट + प्रकटित)
Formभूतकृदन्त (क्त) ‘प्रकटित’; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; तत्पुरुष: ‘made manifest by the matted-hair mass’
गङ्गाGaṅgā
गङ्गा:
सम्बन्ध (Sambandha/Compound member)
TypeNoun
Rootगङ्गा (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/समासपूर्वपद-रूप (stem form in compound)
सम्मार्ज्जितcleansed
सम्मार्ज्जित:
विशेषण (Viśeṣaṇa)
TypeAdjective
Rootसम्-√मृज् (धातु)
Formभूतकृदन्त (क्त) ‘सम्मार्जित’; समासपूर्वपद; ‘cleansed/wiped away’
अंहसम्sin
अंहसम्:
कर्म (Karma/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootअंहस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया-विभक्ति, एकवचन; विशेष्य: ‘sin’

Soma (inferred: stuti sequence)

C
Classical Literature
P
Purāṇic Iconography
S
Sacred Rivers
S
Sanskrit Epithets

FAQs

It combines transcendence-language (beyond mind/speech) with concrete iconography (three-eyed, jaṭā), showing how Purāṇic Sanskrit blends philosophical abstraction and visual religio-cultural description.

Gaṅgā is referenced as a sacred river motif; the verse does not specify a particular stretch or pilgrimage ford.

It encodes purification as a theme—moral-psychological cleansing is symbolized through the Gaṅgā’s washing away of defilement.

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