Varaha Purana 22.45: Adhyaya 22, Shloka 45
Gaurī’s Rebirth, Umā’s Austerities, Rudra’s Test, and the Himalayan Wedding
स तदा मन्दरोक्तस्तु शङ्करो द्रुतमाययौ । विधिना सोमया पाणिं जग्राह परमेश्वरः ॥ २२.४५ ॥
sa tadā mandaroktastu śaṅkaro drutamāyayau | vidhinā somayā pāṇiṃ jagrāha parameśvaraḥ || 22.45 ||
मंदर के कहने पे शंकर जल्दी आया। विधि के हिसाब से शादी हुई। भगवान ने सोमा का हाथ पकड़ा। परमेश्वर ने अपनी पत्नी बनाया।
Varāha (default narrator framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It preserves a Purāṇic narrative motif linking divine figures with a recognizable Vedic-marriage element (pāṇigrahaṇa, “taking the hand”), illustrating how later Sanskrit texts embed ritual vocabulary within mythic storytelling.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it focuses on arrival and a ritualized marriage act.
The verse foregrounds conformity to established procedure—“vidhinā” (according to prescribed rule)—as a general cultural principle of acting within an accepted normative framework.
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