Varaha Purana 166.13: Adhyaya 166, Shloka 13
The Greatness of the Sacred Pond Called Asikuṇḍa
जय विश्वेश कर्त्तेश जय देव नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ श्रीवराह उवाच ॥ तीर्थैः स्तुतोऽहं वसुधे वचनं चेदमब्रुवम् ।
jaya viśveśa kartteśa jaya deva namo 'stu te || śrīvarāha uvāca || tīrthaiḥ stuto 'haṁ vasudhe vacanaṁ cedam abruvam |
जय दुनिया के मालिक, करम के मालिक, जय देव, तुम्हे प्रणाम। श्री वराह बोले, तीर्थों ने मुझे यहाँ तारीफ की, और मैंने वसुधा से यह बात कही।
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It preserves the common Purāṇic dialogue architecture (speaker tags like ‘uvāca’) valuable for manuscript segmentation and oral-performance cues.
The immediate verse addresses Vasudhā (Earth) rather than a site; Mathurā is established as the setting in the surrounding verses of the same chapter.
The verse emphasizes accountable speech in response to communal praise—an ethic of measured reply within a dialogic teaching format.
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