Varaha Purana 198.30: Adhyaya 198, Shloka 30
Description of the Torments within the Cycle of Rebirth: Hymn to Yama and the Introduction to Citragupta’s Administration
चित्रगुप्त उवाच ॥ भो भो शृणुत मे दूताः मम चित्तानुवर्त्तकाः ॥ भक्तिमन्तो दुराधर्षा नित्यं व्रतपरायणाः
citragupta uvāca || bho bho śṛṇuta me dūtā mama cittānuvarttakāḥ || bhaktimanto durādharṣā nityaṃ vrataparāyaṇāḥ
चित्रगुप्त ने बोला, अरे सुनो मेरे दूतो, जो मेरे मन्न की बात समझते हो। तुम लोग भक्ति वाले हो, कोई तुम्हे हिला नहीं सकता, और तुम हमेशा व्रत रखते हो।
Citragupta
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It presents Citragupta as an administrative authority whose agents are defined by discipline and obedience, offering evidence for how Purāṇic texts imagine moral bureaucracy.
No geographic location is specified in this verse.
An ethic of disciplined duty: devotion, steadfastness, and faithful execution of assigned tasks.
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