Varaha Purana 17.66: Adhyaya 17, Shloka 66
King Prajāpāla’s Visit to Sage Mahātapā’s Hermitage and the Doctrinal Praise of Nārāyaṇa
अग्नेर्वैश्वानरो नाम प्राणापानौ तथाश्विनौ । भविष्यति तथा गौरी हिमशैलसुता तथा ॥ १७.६६ ॥
agnervaishvānaro nāma prāṇāpānau tathāśvinau | bhaviṣyati tathā gaurī himaśailasutā tathā || 17.66 ||
अग्नि का दूसरा नाम वैश्वानर है। प्राण और अपान, दोनों अश्विन भाई माने जाते हैं। गौरी भी एक देवी का नाम है, जो हिमालय की बेटी कहते हैं।
Varāha (default, not explicit in fragment)
FAQs
It reflects a common Purāṇic method of organizing knowledge through equivalences—linking deities, cosmic functions, and epithets—useful for tracing how late-classical Sanskrit traditions systematized earlier Vedic concepts.
The Himālaya is referenced indirectly through the epithet himaśaila-sutā (“daughter of the snowy mountain”), a traditional identification of the goddess with the Himalayan region in Sanskrit literature.
No direct ethical injunction appears in this verse; its primary function is taxonomic and cosmological—cataloguing names and identifications rather than prescribing conduct.
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