Varaha Purana 62.28: Adhyaya 62, Shloka 28
Instruction on the ‘Health Vow’ and the Rite of Solar Worship
इदं च कारणं चान्यत् कुष्ठस्य शृणु पार्थिव । आदित्यः पद्मगर्भेऽस्मिन् स्वयमेव व्यवस्थितः ॥ ६२.२८ ॥
idaṁ ca kāraṇaṁ cānyat kuṣṭhasya śṛṇu pārthiva | ādityaḥ padmagarbhe 'smin svayam eva vyavasthitaḥ || 62.28 ||
राजा, सुनो कुष्ठ का एक और कारण। इस कमल के अंदर सूर्य खुद बैठा है।
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic genre practice of presenting etiological explanations (nidāna) for conditions such as skin diseases, embedding medical-moral discourse within a royal-instruction setting common to classical Sanskrit narrative traditions.
No explicit geographic site is named in this verse; the expression padmagarbha is a descriptive term and may function symbolically or cosmologically rather than as a clearly locatable place-name in this isolated excerpt.
The verse frames the instruction as authoritative counsel to a ruler—encouraging attentive listening and reflective understanding of causality (kāraṇa) in human affliction, presented in a cosmological idiom.
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