Varaha Purana 26.3: Adhyaya 26, Shloka 3
The Sun’s Assumption of Form and the Gods’ Hymn of Pacification
Pūrva Bhāga · Cosmological Descriptions (Tejas and Solar Radiance)
यः सूर्य इति भास्वांस्तु अन्योन्येन महात्मनः । लोलीभूतानि तेजांसि भासयन्ति जगत्त्रयम् ॥ २६.३ ॥
yaḥ sūrya iti bhāsvāṃs tu anyonyena mahātmanaḥ | lolībhūtāni tejāṃsi bhāsayanti jagattrayam || 26.3 ||
yaH sUrya iti bhAsvAMstu anyonyena mahAtmanaH | lolIbhUtAni tejAMsi bhAsayanti jagattrayam || 26.3 ||
वो शक्ति जो सूर्य है, वो चमक रही है। बड़े-बड़े उज्ज्वल चीज़ों के मिलने से अलग-अलग रोशनी चलती है। यह रोशनी तीन दुनिया को चमकाती है।
Sandhi Notes
- जगत्त्रयम् = जगत् + त्रयम् (त् + त्)
- भास्वांस्तु = भास्वान् + तु
Varāha
Illumination arises through the dynamic coordination of great luminous principles; ‘Sun’ denotes a functional supremacy within a network of tejas.
Contemplate interdependence: recognize that perceived ‘single causes’ often name coordinated systems; cultivate reverence for cosmic order (ṛta) expressed as light and time.
Tejas is presented as a relational, mutually-conditioning principle: the ‘Sun’ is not merely a disk but the organizing name for the coordinated play of luminary powers that makes the tri-loka intelligible and habitable.
Mutual ‘kindling’ of lights evokes yajña-logic: oblations (tejas) circulate and intensify, producing a sustaining illumination for the three worlds (like a sacrifice sustaining cosmic order).
Hints at non-dual dependence: differentiated lights function through interrelation, suggesting tejas as a manifest mode of a deeper, unitary principle (brahman/īśvara-śakti) that appears as many yet operates as one order.
Varāha Purāṇa 26.26.4-7 (etymologies and emergence of Ravi/Bhāskara/Āditya)
FAQs
It reflects a Purāṇic cosmological idiom in which solar radiance and the activity of other luminaries are described through tejas (luminous energy), a key concept in Sanskrit scientific-philosophical vocabulary and mythic cosmography.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the reference is cosmological, using the conventional tri-loka (three-world) framework.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; philosophically, it emphasizes interdependence (anyonyena) as a principle by which cosmic illumination and order are sustained.
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