Varaha Purana 44.17: Adhyaya 44, Shloka 17
The Vaiśākha Bright-Twelfth Observance: Worship of Hari as Jāmadagnya and Its Fruits
प्रासङ्गिकं फलं ह्येतद्गतस्यास्य महामुने । सुपुत्रो जायते वित्तविद्यावान्कान्तिरुत्तमा ॥ ४४.१७ ॥
prāsaṅgikaṃ phalaṃ hy etad gatasyāsya mahāmune | suputro jāyate vittavidyāvān kāntir uttamā || 44.17 ||
हे महा-मुनि, जो कोई वहाँ जाता है उसके लिए यह फायदा है। उसको अच्छा बेटा मिलता है। पैसे मिलते हैं और पढ़ाई भी आती है। चेहरा इतना चमकता है कि सब देखते रह जाते हैं।
Varāha
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It exemplifies the Purāṇic phala-śruti style, where a text or practice is framed with ancillary benefits (social continuity, learning, prosperity), reflecting how such works were transmitted and valued in premodern South Asian literary culture.
No specific location is named in this isolated verse; the referent of “one who has gone (there)” depends on the immediately surrounding passage in Adhyāya 44.
Rather than a direct command, the verse offers an incentive structure: it presents socially valued outcomes (good offspring, learning, prosperity, personal radiance) as associated with undertaking the referenced act or visiting the referenced site.
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