Varaha Purana 211.93: Adhyaya 211, Shloka 93
Methods for the Removal of Sin and the Eulogy of Prabodhinī Ekādaśī/Dvādaśī
Uttara Bhāga · Vaiṣṇava Vrata-Dharma (Dvādaśī Theology)
या सा विष्णोः परा मूर्तिरव्यक्तानेकरूपिणी ॥ सा क्षिप्ता मानुषे लोके द्वादशी मुनिपुङ्गव ॥
yā sā viṣṇoḥ parā mūrtir avyaktānekarūpiṇī || sā kṣiptā mānuṣe loke dvādaśī munipuṅgava ||
yA sA viShNoH parA mUrttiravyaktAnekarUpiNI || sA kShiptA mAnuShe loke dvAdashI munipu~Ngava
विष्णु की सबसे बड़ी शक्ति है जो दिखती नहीं, और उसके कई रूप हैं। उस शक्ति को इंसान की दुनिया में द्वादशी के नाम से बताया गया है।
Sandhi Notes
- मूर्तिरव्यक्ता = मूर्तिः + अव्यक्ता
- अव्यक्तानेकरूपिणी = अव्यक्ता + अनेकरूपिणी (no external sandhi change in Devanagari)
- मुनिपुङ्गव = मुनि + पुङ्गव (समास)
Varāha
The unmanifest supreme of Viṣṇu can be approached through structured sacred time (tithi) as a many-formed manifestation.
Treat Dvādāśī as a Viṣṇu-centered day for heightened restraint, worship, and purity practices.
Varāha, as instructor, frames a cosmic principle (Viṣṇu’s parā mūrti) as manifest within human time as the tithi ‘Dvādāśī’.
Time (tithi) is treated as a theophany: Viṣṇu’s ‘parā mūrti’ becomes accessible in the human realm through sacred calendrical structure.
Bridges nirguṇa/avyakta (unmanifest) with saguna/vyavahāra (many-formed manifestation) by locating divinity within kāla as a ritual doorway.
Dvādāśī is presented as a sacred, Viṣṇu-linked calendrical manifestation, implying it is fit for Vaiṣṇava observance and purity-oriented rites.
Honoring Viṣṇu-tithis supports ritual purity and merit; neglect is implied to forfeit that merit (explicit consequence not stated here).
Alignment with Viṣṇu’s supreme manifestation; accrual of puṇya through proper tithi-observance (fruit implied, not explicitly stated).
Varāha Purāṇa 211.211.4-7 (continuation on Dvādāśī/Ekādaśī discipline and worship)
FAQs
It illustrates Purāṇic sacralization of the lunar calendar, interpreting specific tithis (like Dvādāśī) as embodiments of divine principle—important for the history of Hindu ritual timekeeping.
No specific location is identified; the phrase ‘human world’ (mānuṣa-loka) is cosmological rather than geographic.
It frames Dvādāśī observance as participation in a divine order, encouraging disciplined ritual engagement with sacred time.
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