Varaha Purana 29.15: Adhyaya 29, Shloka 15
The Birth and Marriages of the Direction-Goddesses and the Daśamī Observance
ततः प्रभृति ता देव्यः सेन्द्राद्याः परिकीर्तिताः । दशमी च तिथिस्तासामतीव दयिताभवत् ॥ २९.१५ ॥
tataḥ prabhṛti tā devyaḥ sendrādyāḥ parikīrtitāḥ | daśamī ca tithis tāsām atīva dayitābhavat || 29.15 ||
तब से वो सब देवियाँ, इंद्र वाली और बाकी सब, का नाम लिया जाने लगा। दसवीं तिथि उन सब में सबसे प्यारी हो गई।
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in excerpt)
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It reflects a Purāṇic practice of cataloging divine figures and correlating them with calendrical units (tithis), indicating how ritual timekeeping and devotional or commemorative observances were textualized in Sanskrit narrative traditions.
No geographic location is specified in this verse; the focus is on enumeration of devīs and the prominence of the Daśamī tithi.
Rather than an explicit ethical injunction, the verse foregrounds orderly remembrance (parikīrtana/enumeration) and the cultural valuation of sacred time (Daśamī) within a ritual-philosophical framework.
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