Varaha Purana 160.21: Adhyaya 160, Shloka 21
The Prescribed Emergence and Procedure of the Mathurā Circumambulation
Parikramā
हयमुक्तिं ततो गच्छेत्सिन्दूरं ससहायकम् ॥ श्रूयते चात्र ऋषिभिर्गाथा गीता पुरातनी ॥
haya-muktiṃ tato gacchet sindūraṃ sa-sahāyakam | śrūyate cātra ṛṣibhir gāthā gītā purātanī |
फिर हयमुक्ति जाओ, और सिन्दूर भी, अपने साथी के साथ। यहाँ रिशि पुरानी गाथा गाते हैं जो सुनाई देती है।
Varāha (default—speaker not explicit in excerpt)
FAQs
It signals layered textual transmission: an older gāthā embedded within a Purāṇic narrative as an authority marker.
Hayamukti and Sindūra are named as destinations; further identification needs external philological or regional evidence.
It recommends a sequential itinerary and frames pilgrimage knowledge as inherited through sage tradition.
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