Varaha Purana 23.19: Adhyaya 23, Shloka 19
The Birth of Gaṇapati, the Emergence of the Vināyakas, and the Significance of the Fourth Lunar Day
यथा यथा असौ स शरीरमाद्यं धुनोति देवस्त्रिशिखास्त्रपाणिः । तथा तथा चाङ्गरुहाश्चकासुर्जलं क्षितौ संन्यपतंस्तथान्याः ॥ २३.१९ ॥
yathā yathā asau sa śarīram ādyaṃ dhunoti devas triśikhāstrapāṇiḥ | tathā tathā cāṅgaruhāś cakāsur jalaṃ kṣitau saṃnyapataṃs tathānyāḥ || 23.19 ||
जब-जब भगवान अपना पुराना बदन हिला रहे थे, उनके बाल चमकने लगे। उनके हाथ में त्रिशूल थी। उनके बदन से पानी टपक के ज़मीन पर गिर रहा था।
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
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It preserves a characteristic Purāṇic motif in which cosmic restoration is expressed through vivid bodily imagery, reflecting early medieval Sanskrit narrative techniques for describing world-renewal and elemental processes.
No specific toponym is named in this verse; the setting is broadly ‘kṣiti’ (the earth/ground) rather than a localized sacred site.
The verse does not state an explicit moral injunction; its philosophical instruction is implicit—depicting the re-stabilization of the earth and the regulated return of waters as part of cosmic order.
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