Varaha Purana 38.26: Adhyaya 38, Shloka 26
The Hunter’s Austerity and the Gaining of Durvāsas’ Favor
एवमुक्त्वा । अथ व्याधेन देविका पापनाशिनी । आजगाम यतस्तस्थौ दुर्वासाः संशितव्रतः ॥ ३८.२६ ॥
evam uktvā, atha vyādhena devikā pāpanāśinī | ājagāma yatas tasthau durvāsāḥ saṃśitavrataḥ || 38.26 ||
यह कह के शिकारी ने देविका को बुलाया। देविका पाप मिटाने वाली नदी थी। वो दोनों उस जगह पहुँचे जहाँ दुर्वासा खड़ा था। दुर्वासा अपने व्रत में पक्का था।
Varāha (default narrative framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
FAQs
It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative technique: concise scene-setting through named figures (Durvāsā, Devikā) and epithets (saṃśitavrataḥ), helping situate ethical and cultural themes within a recognizable literary world.
No explicit toponym appears in this verse; it only indicates “the place where Durvāsā was standing,” without naming a specific site.
The verse implicitly foregrounds discipline and moral purification through its descriptors—Durvāsā as “firm in vows” and Devikā as “remover of wrongdoing”—without stating a direct injunction.
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