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Varaha Purana 160.27: Adhyaya 160, Shloka 27

The Prescribed Emergence and Procedure of the Mathurā Circumambulation

Parikramā

अस्पृश्या चास्पृशा चैव मातरौ लोकपूजितौ ॥ बालानां दर्शनं ताभ्यां महारक्षां करिष्यति ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 160.27

aspṛśyā cāspṛśā caiva mātarau loka-pūjitau | bālānāṃ darśanaṃ tābhyāṃ mahā-rakṣāṃ kariṣyati |

अस्पृश्य और अस्पृशा, यह दोनों माता हैं और लोग उनकी पूजा करते हैं। बच्चे उनका दर्शन करें तो उनकी बहुत अच्छी रक्षा होती है।

अस्पृश्याAspṛśyā (name)
अस्पृश्या:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअस्पृश्य (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; नामरूपेण (one named Aspṛśyā)
चand
च:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय
अस्पृशाAspṛśā (name)
अस्पृशा:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootअस्पृशा (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; नामरूपेण (one named Aspṛśā)
चand
च:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootच (अव्यय)
Formसमुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय
एवindeed
एव:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; अवधारणार्थक (only/indeed)
मातरौtwo mothers
मातरौ:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootमातृ (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), द्विवचन
लोकपूजितौworshipped by the world/people
लोकपूजितौ:
Visheshana (विशेषण)
TypeAdjective
Rootलोक + पूजित (पूज् धातु, क्त कृदन्त)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, द्विवचन; तृतीया-तत्पुरुषः (लोकेन पूजितौ = worshipped by the people)
बालानाम्of children
बालानाम्:
Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/षष्ठी)
TypeNoun
Rootबाल (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन
दर्शनम्seeing / दर्शन
दर्शनम्:
Karta (कर्ता)
TypeNoun
Rootदर्शन (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन
ताभ्याम्by those two
ताभ्याम्:
Karana (करण)
TypeNoun
Rootतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, तृतीया (3rd/Instrumental), द्विवचन
महारक्षाम्great protection
महारक्षाम्:
Karma (कर्म)
TypeNoun
Rootमहा + रक्षा (प्रातिपदिक)
Formस्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; कर्मधारयः (महती रक्षा)
करिष्यतिwill do / will provide
करिष्यति:
Kriya (क्रिया)
TypeVerb
Rootकृ (धातु)
Formलृट्-लकार (Simple Future), परस्मैपद, प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन

Varāha (default—speaker not explicit in excerpt)

C
Classical Literature
P
Protective Deities
C
Cultural Heritage
P
Pilgrimage Studies

FAQs

It records protective maternal figures associated with a place, reflecting how local guardian traditions are incorporated into Purāṇic textual archives.

No explicit location-name is given in the verse; it likely continues a site-sequence from the surrounding passage.

It highlights protection and well-being (especially of children) as a valued outcome linked to respectful encounter (darśana) within heritage settings.

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