Varaha Purana 205.9: Adhyaya 205, Shloka 9
Description of the Proclamation of Auspicious and Inauspicious Karmic Results
Uttara Bhāga · Śubhāśubha-phala (karmaphala) and heroic death motif
त्रिविष्टपे परिक्लेशो वासो ह्यस्याक्षयो भवेत् ॥ अयमायोधने शत्रुं हत्वा तु निधनंगतः ॥
triviṣṭape parikleśo vāso hy asyākṣayo bhavet | ayam āyodhane śatruṃ hatvā tu nidhanaṃ gataḥ ||
triviShTape pariklesho vAso hyasyAkShayo bhavet || ayamAyodhane shatruM hatvA tu nidhana~NgataH
स्वर्ग में भी परेशानी होती है, मगर वहाँ रहना परमानेंट है। यह आदमी लड़ाई में दुश्मन को मारकर मर गया है।
Sandhi Notes
- hy asya akṣayaḥ = hi + asya + akṣayaḥ
- ayam āyodhane: sandhi between ayam + āyodhane
- nidhanam gataḥ = ‘gone to death’ (accusative of goal)
Ṛṣiputra (didactic narration; battle-death scenario)
Even exalted rewards like svarga are conditioned and not free from strain; dharmic action yields fruit, but liberation lies beyond fruit-bearing realms.
Perform duty without clinging to reward; honor righteous courage while remembering the transience of heavenly enjoyments.
A kṣātra frame: one who dies after slaying an enemy in battle is described with a heavenly outcome (enduring residence), despite noting ‘hardship’ even in svarga.
Valor aligned with duty yields svarga and lasting celestial dwelling; violence outside dharma (unjust war, cruelty) would invert the fruit toward naraka/low rebirth (implied by dharma discourse).
Varāha Purāṇa 205 (kṣātra merit/afterlife sequence)
FAQs
It preserves a kṣātra (warrior) ethical motif—death in battle—mapped onto cosmological reward language, a recurrent theme in epic-Purāṇic moral discourse.
No terrestrial place is identified; Triviṣṭapa is a cosmological designation for heaven.
The verse associates certain forms of duty-bound action (here, battle conduct) with post-mortem outcomes, while acknowledging even heavenly existence can involve ‘parikleśa’ (strain).
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