Varaha Purana 4.25: Adhyaya 4, Shloka 25
On Nārāyaṇa’s Ten Avatāras and Eightfold Manifestations, and the Account of King Aśvaśirā
यस्य ब्रह्मा समुत्पन्नो नाभिपङ्कजमध्यतः । तस्माच्च ब्रह्मणो रुद्रः स विष्णुः परमेश्वरः ॥ ४.२५ ॥
yasya brahmā samutpanno nābhipaṅkajamadhyataḥ | tasmāc ca brahmaṇo rudraḥ sa viṣṇuḥ parameśvaraḥ || 4.25 ||
जिसकी नाभि से ब्रह्मा पैदा हुए, और ब्रह्मा से रुद्र पैदा हुए, वही विष्णु सबसे बड़े भगवान हैं।
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It preserves a widely attested Purāṇic cosmological motif—Brahmā arising from a lotus associated with Viṣṇu—reflecting early medieval Sanskrit traditions that systematized creation genealogies and sectarian identifications within a shared mythic framework.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is cosmological rather than topographical.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse conveys a philosophical instruction about cosmic origin and hierarchical causality (emanation), presenting a model of ordered emergence of principles/deities within Purāṇic cosmology.
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