Varaha Purana 5.47: Adhyaya 5, Shloka 47
Reconciliation of Action and Knowledge: Offering All Acts to Nārāyaṇa and the Hymn to the Yajña-Puruṣa
सुभीमदंष्ट्रं शशिसूर्यनेत्रं संवत्सरे छायनयुग्मकुक्षम् । दर्भाङ्गरोमाणमतैध्मशक्तिं सनातनं यज्ञनरं नमामि ॥ ५.४७ ॥
subhīmadaṃṣṭraṃ śaśisūryanetraṃ saṃvatsare chāyanayugmakukṣam | darbhāṅgaromāṇam atedhmaśaktiṃ sanātanaṃ yajñanaraṃ namāmi || 5.47 ||
मैं उस यज्ञ पुरुष को नमस्ते करता हूँ जो सनातन हैं। उनके दाँत बड़े ज़बरदस्त हैं। उनकी आँखें चाँद और सूरज जैसी हैं। उनका पेट साल भर का है, ढाई के साथ। उनके बाल दर्भा घास जैसे हैं। उनकी शक्ति यज्ञ की लकड़ी है जो आग जलती है।
Varāha (default, as speaker not explicit in the fragment)
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It preserves a Purāṇic mode of Vedic ritual exegesis, presenting the sacrifice (yajña) as a cosmic person whose body maps onto calendrical time and natural phenomena—an important bridge between Vedic symbolism and later Purāṇic theology.
No specific place-name appears in this verse; the imagery is primarily cosmological and ritual-symbolic rather than topographic.
The verse foregrounds disciplined reverence for cosmic order expressed through yajña-symbolism—an ethical orientation toward maintaining harmony between human action (ritual/intent) and the rhythms of nature (sun, moon, year, solstices).
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