Varaha Purana 27.32: Adhyaya 27, Shloka 32
The Slaying of Andhaka and the Manifestation of the Eight Mother-Goddesses from Divine Afflictions
कामं योगेश्वरीं विद्धि क्रोधो माहेश्वरीं तथा । लोभस्तु वैष्णवी प्रोक्ता ब्रह्माणी मद एव च ॥ २७.३३ ॥
kāmaṃ yogeśvarīṃ viddhi krodho māheśvarīṃ tathā | lobhas tu vaiṣṇavī proktā brahmāṇī mada eva ca || 27.33 ||
इच्छा योगेशरी से आती है। गुस्सा महेशरी से आता है। लालच विष्णु की तरफ से है, और अपनी बड़ाई ब्रह्मा की तरफ से।
Varāha (default, as speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It reflects a Purāṇic method of classifying human dispositions (doṣas) by correlating them with named divine powers, a common literary strategy used to systematize ethical-psychological teachings within a mythic-cosmological framework.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily ethical and taxonomic rather than topographical.
The verse catalogues key disruptive mental-emotional states—desire, anger, greed, and pride/intoxication—by assigning them to specific divine-power categories, encouraging the reader to recognize and conceptually organize these tendencies for disciplined reflection.
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