Varaha Purana 165.10: Adhyaya 165, Shloka 10
The Glory of Mathurā: The Account of Piṇḍa-Offering at the Catuḥsāmudrika Well
परिभ्रमन्क्षुधाविष्टो मरुदेशं गतोऽपि सः ॥ तत्रैव च कृतावासो बहुकालं स वै वणिक् ॥
paribhraman kṣudhāviṣṭo marudeśaṃ gato ’pi saḥ | tatraiva ca kṛtāvāso bahukālaṃ sa vai vaṇik ||
वो भटकते-भटकते बहुत भूखा हो गया। आखिर में एक रेगिस्तान में पहुँच गया। वहाँ उस सौदागर ने अपना बसेरा बना लिया। बहुत लम्बे तक वही रहता रहा।
Varāha (default narrative frame; speaker not explicit in this fragment)
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It reflects Purāṇic narrative interest in travel, trade routes, and the vulnerabilities of itinerant life (hunger, exposure), framing ethical and karmic episodes through everyday social roles such as the vaṇik (merchant).
marudeśa (“desert region”) is a generic toponym rather than a single fixed site; it broadly evokes arid tracts known in classical Sanskrit literature (often associated with western/northwestern corridors).
The verse sets the narrative conditions—hardship and displacement—through which later moral choices and consequences will be presented.
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