Varaha Purana 47.2: Adhyaya 47, Shloka 2

The Rite of Śrāvaṇa Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī (Dāmodara Worship) and the Exemplum of King Nṛga

Pūrva Bhāga · Vaiṣṇava Stotra / Aṅga-nyāsa (iconographic praise)

Devanagari script

दामोदराय पादौ तु हृषीकेशाय वै कटिम् । सनातनेति जठरमुरः श्रीवत्सधारिणे ॥ ४७.२ ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 47.2

Transliteration

dāmodarāya pādau tu hṛṣīkeśāya vai kaṭim | sanātaneti jaṭharam uraḥ śrīvatsadhāriṇe || 47.2 ||

ITRANS transliteration

Translation

दामोदर के चरणों को पूजा में समर्पित करना है। हृषिकेश को कमर का हिस्सा देना है। पेट को सनातन बोल के समर्पित करना है। और छाती को श्रीवत्स धारण करने वाले भगवान के लिए देनी है।

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Word by Word

• dāmodarāya: to Dāmodara
• Type: Noun
• Form: Masculine, Dative (चतुर्थी), Singular
• Role: Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
• Root: dāmodara (दामोदर प्रातिपदिक)

• pādau: (the two) feet
• Type: Noun
• Form: Masculine, Accusative (द्वितीया), Dual (द्विवचन)
• Role: Karma (कर्म)
• Root: pāda (पाद प्रातिपदिक)

• tu: and/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Form: Avyaya, particle
• Role: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/निपात)
• Root: tu (अव्यय)

• hṛṣīkeśāya: to Hṛṣīkeśa
• Type: Noun
• Form: Masculine, Dative (चतुर्थी), Singular
• Role: Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
• Root: hṛṣīkeśa (हृषीकेश प्रातिपदिक)

• vai: indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Form: Avyaya, emphatic particle (निपात)
• Role: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/निपात)
• Root: vai (अव्यय)

• kaṭim: the waist
• Type: Noun
• Form: Feminine, Accusative (द्वितीया), Singular
• Role: Karma (कर्म)
• Root: kaṭi (कटि प्रातिपदिक)

• sanātanā: to the Eternal One (Sanātana)
• Type: Noun
• Form: Masculine, Dative (चतुर्थी), Singular (understood: sanātanāya); used as name/epithet in dative parallelism
• Role: Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
• Root: sanātana (सनातन प्रातिपदिक)

• iti: thus (as)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Form: Avyaya, quotative particle (इति-निपात)
• Role: Sambandha (उद्धरण-चिह्न)
• Root: iti (अव्यय)

• jaṭharam: the belly
• Type: Noun
• Form: Neuter, Accusative (द्वितीया), Singular
• Role: Karma (कर्म)
• Root: jaṭhara (जठर प्रातिपदिक)

• uraḥ: the chest
• Type: Noun
• Form: Neuter, Accusative (द्वितीया), Singular (form identical to nominative/accusative)
• Role: Karma (कर्म)
• Root: uras (उरस् प्रातिपदिक)

• śrīvatsa-dhāriṇe: to the bearer of Śrīvatsa
• Type: Noun
• Form: Tatpuruṣa (तत्पुरुष) compound: ‘bearer of Śrīvatsa’; Masculine, Dative (चतुर्थी), Singular
• Role: Sampradāna (सम्प्रदान)
• Root: śrīvatsa (श्रीवत्स) + dhārin (धारिन् प्रातिपदिक)

Sandhi Notes

• sanātaneti = sanātanā + iti (sandhi)
• sense requires dative parallelism (sanātanāya) though text shows contracted form. śrīvatsadhāriṇe = śrīvatsa-dhāriṇe (Tatpuruṣa)

Speaker and setting

Bhakti and Shanta rasaSetting: Ritual-body (adhyātma-kṣetra)

Speaker

Varāha

The teaching

Kind of teaching

Upāsanā (internalization)

Subjects

Ritual PracticeDevotional LiteratureIconography

Core idea

Devotion is stabilized by mapping divine attributes onto one’s own limbs, transforming self-awareness into God-remembrance.

In practice

During pūjā, perform aṅga-nyāsa slowly with each name, visualizing the Lord’s presence in that limb and maintaining purity and attention.

Symbolism of the boar

Dharma

Vrata

Mathura and Krishna

Cross references

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇa
• Vaiṣṇavism
• Mantra and Nyāsa

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It preserves a Purāṇic-layer witness to Vaiṣṇava ritual vocabulary—especially nyāsa-like assignment of divine epithets to body regions—useful for tracing intersections of Purāṇa, mantra practice, and iconographic theology.

Which geographic location is identified?

No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily ritual-iconographic rather than topographic.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The verse conveys a disciplined contemplative practice: structuring attention and reverence through ordered bodily and verbal acts, emphasizing mindful embodiment rather than a social-legal injunction.