Varaha Purana 188.25: Adhyaya 188, Shloka 25
Section on the Origin and Procedure of Piṇḍa-Rites and Śrāddha: Rules of Mourning Impurity
Aśauca
धारयिष्यामि सुश्रोणि विष्णुमायाततं जगत्॥ चण्डालमादितः कृत्वा नराणां तु शुभाशुभम्॥
dhārayiṣyāmi suśroṇi viṣṇumāyātatam jagat || caṇḍālamāditaḥ kṛtvā narāṇāṃ tu śubhāśubham ||
मैं इस पूरी दुनिया को उठा के रखूंगा। विष्णु की माया से यह फैली हुई है। इसमें सब इंसान हैं - चांडाल से लेकर बड़े लोग तक। कोई अच्छा है, कोई बुरा।
Pṛthivī (default dialogue framework: Earth speaks here due to “I shall bear… upon your back” context)
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It combines cosmological language (Viṣṇu-māyā, jagat) with a comprehensive social-moral range (śubhāśubha), reflecting how Purāṇic narration can merge metaphysics with social description.
No geographic location is specified; the verse is cosmological and anthropological in scope.
It presents the world as containing mixed conditions (auspicious/inauspicious) and frames the Earth as sustaining all, implicitly promoting responsibility in how humans act within that shared ground.
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