Varaha Purana 21.71: Adhyaya 21, Shloka 71
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari-Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
Pūrva Bhāga · Pṛthivī-uddhāra and Cosmic Theophany (dialogue framework)
पश्याम ते देहगतान् सुरेश सर्गादयो वेदवराननन्त । साङ्गान् सविद्यान् सपदक्रमांश्च सर्वान् निलीनांस्त्वयि देवदेव ॥ २१.७२ ॥
paśyāma te dehagatān sureśa sargādayo vedavarān ananta | sāṅgān savidyān sapadakramāṃś ca sarvān nilīnāṃs tvayi devadeva || 21.72 ||
pashyAma te dehagatAn suresha sargAdayo vedavarAnananta | sA~NgAn savidyAn sapadakramAMshcha sarvAn nilInAMstvayi devadeva || 21.72 ||
देव, तुम्हारे शरीर में हम वेदों को देख सकते हैं। इनके साथ सृष्टि और बाकी सब भी है। वेद के साथ सारे ज्ञान भी है। हर शब्द और क्रम सब तुम्हारे अंदर समा गया है। तुम देवों के देव हो।
Sandhi Notes
- देहगतान् = देह-गतान्
- सर्गादयो = सर्ग-आदयः
- साङ्गान् = स-अङ्गान्
- सविद्यान् = स-विद्यान्
- सपदक्रमांश्च = स-पद-क्रमान् च
- निलीनांस्त्वयि = निलीनान् त्वयि
- देवदेव = देव-देव
Pṛthivī
Awestruck, contemplative, intellectually curious; perceiving cosmic totality within the deity
How are the Vedas (with their śākhās, aṅgas, and recensional methods like pada/krama) and the entire sarga-process contained and reabsorbed in you as the Infinite?
Śruti, its disciplines, and the entire sarga-cycle are not independent realities but rest in—and are reabsorbed into—the Supreme.
Approach Veda-study and ritual/knowledge traditions as participation in the divine; cultivate humility and contemplative reverence toward the source of śruti.
Pṛthivī directly addresses the Lord, beholding the Vedas and cosmic processes as immanent within his body (darśana/vision rather than physical contact).
The Lord is presented as the adhāra (substratum) in whom śruti, its pedagogical apparatus (aṅgas/vidyās), and the cyclic cosmos (sarga-ādi) are both manifest and finally dissolve—an immanence-and-transcendence theology consistent with Yajña-Puruṣa/Varāha totality motifs.
Leans toward a Viṣṇu-centric brahman-as-support view: nāmarūpa and even śabda-brahman (Veda) arise, are sustained, and resolve in the Infinite; suggests the unity of para-tattva with śruti as its self-disclosure.
Varāha Purāṇa 21.21.72 (Veda and sarga absorbed in the deity)
FAQs
It reflects a Purāṇic synthesis in which Vedic textual traditions (including recitation methods like pada and krama) are framed within a cosmological vision—useful for studying how later Sanskrit literature presents the authority and transmission of the Vedas.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is cosmological and textual (Vedas and their disciplines) rather than tied to a tīrtha or region.
The verse primarily conveys a philosophical instruction about epistemic humility and unity of knowledge: diverse disciplines and textual forms are portrayed as ultimately integrated within a single cosmic principle, encouraging a holistic view of learning and tradition.
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