Varaha Purana 182.30: Adhyaya 182, Shloka 30
Installation of a Stone Image
Ritual Procedure for Consecration
Uttara Bhāga · Śānti-japa (Health, Agriculture, and Seasonal Regularity)
रोगा विनश्यन्तु च सर्वतश्च कृषीवलानां च कृषिः सदा स्यात् ॥ सुभिक्षयुक्ताश्च सदा हि लोकाः काले सुवृष्टिर्भविता च शान्तिः ॥
rogā vinaśyantu ca sarvataś ca kṛṣīvalānāṁ ca kṛṣiḥ sadā syāt || subhikṣayuktāś ca sadā hi lokāḥ kāle suvṛṣṭir bhavitā ca śāntiḥ ||
rogA vinashyantu cha sarvatashcha kRRiShIvalAnAM cha kRRiShiH sadA syAt|| subhikShayuktAshcha sadA hi lokAH kAle suvRRiShTirbhavitA cha shAntiH
सब तरफ से बीमारी मिट जाए। किसान की फसल अच्छी हो। लोगों को खाना मिलता रहे। वक्त पर बारिश हो और शांति बनी रहे।
Sandhi Notes
- सर्वतश्च = सर्वतः + च
- सुभिक्षयुक्ताश्च = सुभिक्षयुक्ताः + च
- सुवृष्टिर्भविता = सुवृष्टिः + भविता
Varāha
Peace is not abstract: it includes health systems, food security, and climate regularity (kāla-suvṛṣṭi).
Frame worship with concrete welfare intentions—support farmers, protect cattle, maintain cleanliness and public health, and cultivate non-violence that stabilizes community life.
As Earth-sustainer, Varāha’s cosmic function is echoed in prayers for rain, crops, and health—macrocosmic ‘earth-rescue’ becomes ongoing ecological maintenance.
Timely rain and abundance are classic yajña-fruits; the mantra frames society’s well-being as the outcome of harmonized ritual order (ṛta).
Interdependence: human conduct/intent (dharma, śānti) conditions the mind and community, which in turn shapes how one experiences the world’s ‘order’ as supportive rather than hostile.
Pray for eradication of disease, prosperity of agriculture, abundance of food, timely rains, and peace as core aims of public welfare rites.
When rulers and communities uphold dharma and śānti rites, prosperity and health are supported; adharma correlates with roga, drought, and scarcity.
Varāha Purāṇa 182.33 (śānti-japa for social groups)
FAQs
It provides a compact welfare-program formula—health, agrarian success, food security, and seasonal rains—useful for studying Purāṇic environmental imagination and agrarian priorities.
No specific location is mentioned; the verse is a general benediction oriented to ecological and social stability.
Collective well-being as a guiding value: the text foregrounds health, sustainable agriculture, and timely rainfall as conditions for societal peace.
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