Varaha Purana 60.4: Adhyaya 60, Shloka 4
The Rite of the Śāntivrata: A Yearlong Observance with Viṣṇu-on-Śeṣa and Nāga-Anganyāsa Worship
तक्षकाश्येति जठरमुरः कर्कोटकाय च । पद्माय कण्ठं सम्पूज्य महापद्माय दोर्युगम् ॥ ६०.४ ॥
takṣakāyeti jaṭharam uraḥ karkoṭakāya ca | padmāya kaṇṭhaṃ sampūjya mahāpadmāya doryugam || 60.4 ||
पेट को तक्षक कहते हुए पूजो, छाती को कर्कोटक कहते हुए पूजो। गला को पद्म कहते हुए पूजो, दोनों हाथों को महापद्म कहते हुए पूजो।
Varāha (default dialogue framework; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
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It preserves a ritual-technical style of Purāṇic Sanskrit in which named powers (here, nāga figures) are mapped onto bodily regions, reflecting broader South Asian traditions of protective recitation and embodied liturgy.
No explicit geographic toponym appears in this verse; the content is primarily ritual and lexical (nāga names and body-parts).
The verse conveys a discipline of careful, structured reverence—an instruction toward attentiveness and orderly practice rather than a direct moral injunction.
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