Varaha Purana 29.12: Adhyaya 29, Shloka 12
The Birth and Marriages of the Direction-Goddesses and the Daśamī Observance
एकामिन्द्राय स प्रादादग्नयेऽन्यां यमाय च । निरृताय च देवाय वरुणाय महात्मने ॥ २९.१२ ॥
ekām indrāya sa prādād agnaye 'nyāṃ yamāya ca | nirṛtāya ca devāya varuṇāya mahātmane || 29.12 ||
ब्रह्मा ने एक लड़की इंद्र को दी, एक अग्नि को, और एक यम को। फिर निरृति देवता को भी दिया और वरुण को भी।
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in excerpt)
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It reflects a Purāṇic pattern of allocating portions/offerings to multiple Vedic deities, preserving older ritual-cosmological lists within later narrative literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is a deity-allocation list rather than a sacred-topography reference.
A principle of ordered distribution and acknowledgment of multiple cosmic functions—an ethical-ritual ideal of balance and due allocation rather than exclusivity.
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