Varaha Purana 54.6: Adhyaya 54, Shloka 6
Nārada’s Teaching on a Viṣṇu-Vrata for Securing a Husband
Narrative of the Apsarases
तास्तं दृष्ट्वा विलासिन्यो जटामुकुटधारिणम् । अस्थिचर्मावशेषं तु छत्रदण्डकपालिनम् ॥ ५४.६ ॥
tās taṃ dṛṣṭvā vilāsinyō jaṭāmukuṭadhāriṇam | asthicarmāvaśeṣaṃ tu chatradaṇḍakapālinam || 54.6 ||
जब उन्होंने नारद को देखा, तो वो हैरान रह गई। नारद के बाल जट्टे में बंधे थे। उनके पास बस हड्डी और चमड़ा बचा था। हाथ में छाता और खोपड़ी थी।
Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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The verse preserves a Purāṇic narrative style of character depiction through recognizable external markers (jaṭā, staff, skull-bowl), valuable for studying South Asian ascetic and iconographic vocabulary across manuscript traditions.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it functions primarily as a descriptive scene-setting unit.
No explicit ethical injunction is stated here; the verse primarily conveys a descriptive contrast between the women’s demeanor (vilāsa) and the figure’s austere, mortuary-associated attributes (bone/skin remnants, skull-bowl), which can contextualize later moral or philosophical discussion in the surrounding passage.
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