Varaha Purana 37.25: Adhyaya 37, Shloka 25
The Threefold Discipline (Mental, Physical, Verbal) and the Salvific Power of Hearing Nārāyaṇa’s Name
Pūrva Bhāga · Dharma-nyāya (Narratives of conduct, curse/blessing motifs)
तस्यैवं वादिनो विप्राः सर्वे क्रोधसमन्विताः । ऊचुः शापं दुराधर्षः क्रूरो व्याघ्रो भविष्यसि ॥ ३७.२५ ॥
tasyaivaṃ vādino viprāḥ sarve krodha-samanvitāḥ | ūcuḥ śāpaṃ durādharṣaḥ krūro vyāghro bhaviṣyasi || 37.25 ||
tasyaivaM vAdino viprAH sarve krodhasamanvitAH | UchuH shApaM durAdharShaH krUro vyAghro bhaviShyasi || 37.25 ||
यह सुन के सारे ब्राह्मण गुस्से में आ गए। उन्होंने शाप दिया। तुम बड़े ज़बरदस्त हो, पर अब तुम बाघ बन जाओगे। बड़े खतरनाक बाघ।
Sandhi Notes
- krodha-samanvitāḥ is a compound
Attentive; witnessing dharmic retribution through brāhmaṇa-tejas
How does harmful speech toward the worthy immediately generate social and karmic retaliation (śāpa)?
Vāk (speech) is performative and karmically potent; brāhmaṇa-tejas, when righteously provoked, manifests as immediate consequence.
Avoid disparaging the dhārmika; when offense occurs, promptly seek reconciliation before anger crystallizes into irreversible outcomes.
Avamāna of brāhmaṇas provokes brāhmaṇa-kopa and śāpa; restraint in speech and seeking forgiveness are implied correctives.
One may incur a transformative curse (loss of human status/violent embodiment), reflecting immediate fruition of aparādha.
37.37.24 (provocation); 37.37.26-27 (deathbed effect and fruition of curse)
FAQs
It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative device: the śāpa (curse) as a mechanism of moral causality and plot transition, often linking speech, conduct, and embodied consequence.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment.
The verse highlights the ethical theme that provocative or improper speech and conduct can trigger communal sanction and consequential transformation, emphasizing accountability within social and ritual order.
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