Varaha Purana 192.9: Adhyaya 192, Shloka 9
Description of the Universal Peace-Recitation and the Madhuparka Rite
दिशः पश्य अधः पश्य व्याधिभ्यो रक्ष नित्यशः ॥ प्रसीद स्वस्य राष्ट्रस्य राज्ञः सर्वबलस्य च ॥
diśaḥ paśya adhaḥ paśya vyādhibhyo rakṣa nityaśaḥ || prasīda svasya rāṣṭrasya rājñaḥ sarva-balasya ca ||
चारों तरफ देखो, नीचे भी देखो। हमेशा हमको बिमारियों से बचाओ। अपने देश पर मेहरबानी करो। और उस राजा पर भी जिसके पास सब कुछ है।
Varāha (instructional frame; mantra-voice may be reciter)
FAQs
It exemplifies how Purāṇic texts integrate health concerns and kingship into protective liturgies, indicating a social dimension to ritual language.
No named location; “directions” (diśaḥ) are cosmological-spatial markers used in protective formulas.
To frame protection as extending to the whole polity—people, ruler, and the spatial environment—rather than as purely individual benefit.
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