Varaha Purana 198.10: Adhyaya 198, Shloka 10
Description of the Torments within the Cycle of Rebirth: Hymn to Yama and the Introduction to Citragupta’s Administration
कर्म कारयिता चैव भूतभव्य भवत्प्रभो ॥ पावको मोहनश्चैव संक्षेपो विस्तारस्तथा ॥
karma kārayitā caiva bhūta-bhavya bhavat-prabho | pāvako mohanaś caiva saṃkṣepo vistāras tathā ||
तुम ही काम करवाते हो, भूत और भविष्य के मालिक। तुम साफ करते हो और सबको अपने में ले लेते हो। तुम छोटा भी हो, बड़ा भी हो।
Ṛṣiputra (continuation of marked speech)
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The verse preserves a doctrinally flexible Purāṇic idiom where a single divine figure is described through multiple functional roles—ritual, moral, and cosmological.
No geographic location is identified in this verse.
It underscores accountability within a moral cosmos: actions (karma) are situated within an ordered framework governed by an overseeing principle.
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