Varaha Purana 52.2: Adhyaya 52, Shloka 2
The Genealogy of Trivarṇa, Manohvā, and the Akṣa Lineage, with the Construction of the Nine-Gated City
तस्यापि चाभवत् कन्या अवबोधस्वरूपिणी । सा तु विज्ञानदं पुत्रं मनोह्वं विससर्ज ॥ ५२.२ ॥
tasyāpi cābhavat kanyā avabodhasvarūpiṇī | sā tu vijñānadaṃ putraṃ manohvaṃ visasarja || 52.2 ||
उसकी भी एक बेटी हुई जो बहुत समझदार थी। उसने भी एक बेटा पैदा किया जिसका नाम विज्ञानद रखा। लोग उसे मनोह्व के नाम से भी जानते थे।
Varāha (default narrator-instructor voice; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic compositional technique: presenting abstract philosophical qualities (e.g., avabodha, vijñāna) as personified figures within genealogical narration, a device used to organize and transmit doctrinal and ethical themes in a memorable form.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is genealogical/personificatory rather than topographical.
Rather than a direct injunction, the verse encodes an ethical-philosophical motif: awakening/clear understanding (avabodha) is presented as generative of discernment/knowledge (vijñāna), framing knowledge as an outcome of cultivated clarity.
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