Varaha Purana 214.4: Adhyaya 214, Shloka 4
The Glory of Gokarṇa: Description of Nandikeśvara’s Boon and the Assembly of Deities on Mount Muñjavat
आस्थितः पादमाकृष्य ह्याह्वयन्निव स द्विजः ॥ त्रिभिः क्रमैः क्रान्तुमनास्त्रिविक्रम इवोद्यतः ॥
āsthitaḥ pādam ākṛṣya hy āhvayann iva sa dvijaḥ || tribhiḥ kramaiḥ krāntumanās trivikrama ivodyataḥ ||
वो एक पाँव पीछे करके खड़ा था, जैसे किसी को चैलेंज कर रहा हो। उसकी शकल देख के लगता था वो तीन कदम चल के दुनिया नापना चाहता है, जैसे त्रिविक्रम ने किया था।
Varāha (default dialogue-frame attribution; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It shows intertextual reuse of the Vāmana/Trivikrama motif, a widely transmitted cosmological image used to convey expansion of sovereignty and cosmic scale.
No specific place-name is provided; the imagery is cosmic rather than geographic.
The verse primarily conveys a warning-sign narrative: extraordinary ambition/power elicits scrutiny; it does not prescribe conduct explicitly.
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