Varaha Purana 196.1: Adhyaya 196, Shloka 1
Description of the City of Dharmarāja
Yama
अथ धर्मराजपुरवर्णनम् ॥ वैशम्पायन उवाच ॥ तेषां तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा ऋषीणां भावितात्मनाम् ॥ उवाच वाक्यं वाक्यज्ञः सर्वं निरवशेषतः ॥
atha dharmarājapuravarṇanam || vaiśampāyana uvāca || teṣāṁ tadvacanaṁ śrutvā ṛṣīṇāṁ bhāvitātmanām || uvāca vākyaṁ vākyajñaḥ sarvaṁ niravaśeṣataḥ
अब धरमराज की नगर का बारे में बताते हैं। वैशम्पायन ने कहा, रिशियों की बात सुन के, जो अपने आप को संभाला हुए थे, उन्होंने जो शब्द का जानक था, उसने सब कुछ बता दिया। कोई बात छोड़ी नहीं, पूरा समझा दिया।
Vaiśampāyana
FAQs
It introduces a set-piece descriptive passage (varṇana) typical of Purāṇic composition, framing moral imagination through cosmological and afterlife topography.
Dharmarāja’s city is an otherworldly (mythic) locale associated with Yama; it is not a terrestrial site identifiable in modern geography.
By transitioning into an afterlife description, the text sets a context where moral causality and its imagined settings can be contemplated.
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