Varaha Purana 201.51: Adhyaya 201, Shloka 51
The Battle between the Rākṣasas and Yama’s Attendant-Messengers
सम्भाषन्ते ततो दूताश्चित्रगुप्तं तथैव च ॥ नियुञ्जस्व मया पूर्वं सर्वकर्माणि जन्तुषु ॥
sambhāṣante tato dūtāś citraguptaṃ tathaiva ca || niyuñjasva mayā pūrvaṃ sarvakarmāṇi jantuṣu ||
फिर दूतों ने चित्रगुप्त से बात की। उन्होंने कहा कि सब जीवों के काम लिखने का काम वापस शुरू करो। जैसे पहले होता था वैसे ही करो।
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in excerpt)
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It is evidence for the textual tradition describing systematic attribution/recording of actions (karma) to beings, a key element in South Asian moral-legal imagination.
No geographic location is named.
It foregrounds accountability: deeds are to be systematically attributed to agents, implying moral causality and evaluative order.
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