Varaha Purana 185.24: Adhyaya 185, Shloka 24
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Uttara Bhāga · Śānti Invocation: Cosmic and Social Powers
विद्याः सर्वे ब्रह्म च ब्राह्मणाश्च ग्रहाः सर्वे सरितः सागराश्च ॥ इन्द्राद्यष्टौ लोकपालाश्च सर्वे पूर्वोक्ता ये सर्वशान्तिं च कुर्युः
vidyāḥ sarve brahma ca brāhmaṇāś ca grahāḥ sarve saritaḥ sāgarāś ca || indrādy-aṣṭau lokapālāś ca sarve pūrvoktā ye sarvaśāntiṃ ca kuryuḥ
vidyAH sarve brahma cha brAhmaNAshcha grahAH sarve saritaH sAgarAshcha || indrAdyaShTau lokapAlAshcha sarve pUrvoktA ye sarvashAntiM cha kuryuH
सब विद्या, ब्रह्मा, और ब्राह्मण लोग शांति दें। सब ग्रह, नदियाँ, और समुद्र शांति दें। इंद्र और बाकी सात लोग जो दुनिया के रक्षक हैं, वो भी शांति दें। सब कुछ ठीक हो जाए।
Sandhi Notes
- brāhmaṇāś ca → brāhmaṇāḥ + ca
- sāgarāś ca → sāgarāḥ + ca
- indrādy-aṣṭau → indra-ādi-aṣṭau
Varāha
Reassured; seeking/receiving cosmic pacification for stability
How is universal pacification (sarva-śānti) to be invoked through the totality of cosmic powers—knowledge, sacred persons, waters, planets, and lokapālas?
Universal well-being arises from honoring the interconnected hierarchy of knowledge, sacred community, and cosmic guardianship.
Use comprehensive śānti-invocations that include teachers/learned, waters, and directional deities when seeking communal or environmental stability.
Varāha speaks a universal śānti-invocation for the welfare of all cosmic constituents, implicitly as Earth’s protector and cosmic stabilizer.
Varāha’s cosmic sovereignty is implied through the integration of adhyātma (vidyā/brahman), adhibhūta (rivers/oceans), and adhidaiva (grahas/lokapālas) into one śānti-field—suggesting the avatāra as the harmonizing axis of the worlds.
The list functions like a yajña-invocation where all deities and cosmic limbs are summoned for śānti.
Echoes the Vedāntic vision of one order (ṛta/dharma) pervading knowledge, beings, and cosmos; peace arises when all levels align with brahman.
A śānti-prayer enumerating cosmic supports (vidyā, brahman, brāhmaṇas, grahas, rivers, oceans, lokapālas) as agents of well-being.
Cultivates auspiciousness and social-cosmic harmony; omission is not framed as a punishable breach here.
Varāha Purāṇa śānti/vidhi sections around 185.27–31 (ritual courtesy and honoring brāhmaṇas/guru)
FAQs
The verse exemplifies Purāṇic catalog-style invocations that integrate social authority (brāhmaṇas), learning (vidyā), and cosmic order (grahas, lokapālas) into a single peace formula.
No single locale is named; instead, broad geographic features (rivers and oceans) are invoked as universal constituents of the world.
To seek communal and cosmic well-being through inclusive invocation—acknowledging multiple domains (learning, society, nature, and celestial order).
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