Varaha Purana 147.38: Adhyaya 147, Shloka 38
The Sacred Merit of Goniṣkramaṇa
the Tīrtha of the Cows’ Emergence/Release
ब्रह्मलोकमवाप्नोति ब्रह्मणा सह मोदते ॥ कौमुदस्य तु मासस्य शुक्लपक्षस्य द्वादशी ॥
brahmalokam avāpnoti brahmaṇā saha modate || kaumudasya tu māsasya śuklapakṣasya dvādaśī ||
ब्रह्मा लोक मिलता है, ब्रह्मा के साथ रहते हैं। कौमुद महीने की बारिश वाली पक्ष में, जब चौदस होता है, तब यह सब होता है।
Varāha
FAQs
It preserves calendrical ritual timing (dvādaśī, śuklapakṣa, month-name), valuable for comparing regional month nomenclature and festival cycles in Purāṇic transmission.
No terrestrial location is named here; the verse instead references a cosmological destination (Brahmaloka) and a calendrical marker (dvādaśī in Kaumuda).
Align practices with prescribed times, presenting ritual order and temporal discipline as central to the tradition’s moral-ritual framework.
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