Varaha Purana 148.35: Adhyaya 148, Shloka 35
The Greatness of Stutasvāmi: Varāha’s Disclosure of the Bhūtagiri Sacred Landscape and Its Ethical Discipline
ते तु मात्सर्यार्दोषेण नष्टाचाराः पतन्त्यधः ॥ मात्सर्यं सर्वनाशाय मात्सर्यं धर्मनाशकम् ॥
te tu mātsaryārdoṣeṇa naṣṭācārāḥ patanty adhaḥ || mātsaryaṁ sarvanāśāya mātsaryaṁ dharmanāśakam
जिन लोगों में जलन और बुरी आदतें होती हैं, वो नीचे गिर जाते हैं। जलन सब कुछ बर्बाद कर देती है। जलन धरम को खत्म कर देती है।
Varāha (default instructor voice in Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)
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It represents a common Purāṇic ethical motif: inner vices (doṣa) such as mātsarya are treated as socially and spiritually corrosive, undermining ācāra (normative conduct) and dharma.
No specific location is named in this verse; it functions as a general ethical statement within a larger sacred-geography narrative in the surrounding passage.
Avoid mātsarya (envy), presented as a cause of moral decline (naṣṭācāra) and the destruction of dharma.
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