Varaha Purana 3.4: Adhyaya 3, Shloka 4
Nārada’s Account of a Former Birth and a Hymn to Nārāyaṇa
बहुभृत्यपरिवारो बहुधान्यश्च पार्थिवः । अन्यस्मिन् कृतसंज्ञे तु युगे परमबुद्धिमान् ॥ ३.४ ॥
bahubhṛtyaparīvāro bahudhānyaś ca pārthivaḥ | anyasmin kṛtasaṃjñe tu yuge paramabuddhimān || 3.4 ||
कृतयुग में एक राजा था। उसके पास बहुत नौकर थे, बहुत अन्न था। वो बहुत समझदार राजा था।
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It reflects a standard Purāṇic literary motif: the Kṛta (Satya) Yuga as an idealized epoch marked by prosperity, social order, and exemplary rulership, useful for comparative study across Purāṇas and Dharmaśāstra discourse on kingship.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it is a general description of a yuga (cosmic-historical age) rather than a place-based māhātmya passage.
The verse implicitly associates ethical governance with material sufficiency and cultivated intelligence—an archival indicator of the Purāṇic ideal that a ruler’s wisdom and orderly administration correlate with societal well-being.
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