Varaha Purana 17.68: Adhyaya 17, Shloka 68
King Prajāpāla’s Visit to Sage Mahātapā’s Hermitage and the Doctrinal Praise of Nārāyaṇa
भानुश्चादित्यरूपोऽसौ मूर्त्तामूर्त्त च चक्षुषी । कामाद्योऽयं गणो भूयो मातृरूपो भविष्यति ॥ १७.६८ ॥
bhānuś cādityarūpo 'sau mūrttāmūrtta ca cakṣuṣī | kāmādyo 'yaṃ gaṇo bhūyo mātṛrūpo bhaviṣyati || 17.68 ||
भानु, सूर्य रूप वाला है। वो दोनों आँखों की तरह है, एक दिखने वाला, एक नहीं दिखने वाला। काम से शुरू होके यह सब मातृका देवियाँ बन जायेंगी।
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It reflects Purāṇic methods of organizing cosmological and divine categories (e.g., solar forms, gaṇas, and Mātṛ groups), illustrating how Sanskrit narrative texts encode taxonomy and metaphysical description rather than linear history.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily cosmological and taxonomic.
The verse is descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical focus is on the classification of forms (manifest/unmanifest) and the transformation or re-identification of divine groups within a cosmological framework.
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