Varaha Purana 5.1: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 1
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
अश्वशिरा उवाच । भवन्तौ मम सन्देहमेकं छेत्तुमिहार्हतः । येन छिन्नेन जायेत मम संसारविच्युतिः ॥ ५.१ ॥
Aśvaśirā uvāca | bhavantau mama saṃdeham ekaṃ chettum ihārhataḥ | yena chinnena jāyeta mama saṃsāra-vicyutiḥ || 5.1 ||
अश्वशिरा ने कहा, तुम दोनों मेरे एक सवाल का जवाब दे सकते हो। मेरे मन में एक शक है। वोह दूर कर दो। जब यह शक जाएगा, मैं इस जनम-मरण के चक्कर से आज़ाद हो जाऊँगा।
Aśvaśirā
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic pedagogical frame: an interlocutor formally requests the resolution of a “saṃdeha” (doubt) as a prerequisite for liberation-oriented knowledge, reflecting the text’s didactic and dialogic composition style.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the setting is framed generically as “iha” (“here”), functioning as a discourse marker rather than a toponym.
The verse foregrounds an epistemic ethic: seeking clarification from qualified interlocutors to remove doubt, presented as instrumental to disengagement from saṃsāra (the cycle of conditioned existence).
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