Varaha Purana 27.27: Adhyaya 27, Shloka 27
The Slaying of Andhaka and the Manifestation of the Eight Mother-Goddesses from Divine Afflictions
तस्य क्रोधेन महता मुखाज्ज्वाला विनिर्ययौ । तद्रूपधारिणी देवी यां तां योगेश्वरीं विदुः ॥ २७.२८ ॥
tasya krodhena mahatā mukhāj jvālā viniryayau | tadrūpadhāriṇī devī yāṃ tāṃ yogeśvarīṃ viduḥ || 27.28 ||
रुद्र के मुँह से उनके गुस्से की आग निकली। उसी आग की शक्ति से एक देवी बनी। लोग उसे योगेश्वरी कहते हैं।
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in fragment)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative pattern in which intense affect (here, wrath) is textualized as a generative force producing a distinct divine manifestation, illustrating how Purāṇas encode theology through mythic causality.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is focused on a manifestation event rather than sacred topography.
The verse does not deliver a direct moral injunction; philosophically, it frames powerful emotions as energies that can externalize into consequential action, a theme often used in Purāṇic discourse to explain the origins of protective or corrective forces.
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