Varaha Purana 66.10: Adhyaya 66, Shloka 10
Nārada’s Journey to Śvetadvīpa and the Means of Attaining the Lord through the Pañcarātra
देवदेव उवाच । पौरुषं सूक्तमास्थाय ये यजन्ति द्विजास्तु माम् । संहितामाद्यमास्थाय ते मां प्राप्स्यन्ति नारद ॥ ६६.१० ॥
devadeva uvāca | pauruṣaṃ sūktam āsthāya ye yajanti dvijāstu mām | saṃhitām ādyam āsthāya te māṃ prāpsyanti nārada || 66.10 ||
भगवान बोले, जो द्विज लोग पुरुष सुक्त के साथ मेरा पूजा करते हैं, और जो शुरू की संहिता को मानते हैं, वो मुझे पा लेंगे, नारद।
Devadeva (speaker self-identifying as the divine instructor; within Varāha Purāṇa discourse context)
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It illustrates a Purāṇic strategy of grounding later devotional or theistic worship in older Vedic textual authority, here by explicitly citing the Puruṣa Sūkta and the Saṃhitā as legitimizing frameworks.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is primarily concerned with textual-ritual practice and the stated result (attainment of the deity).
The verse emphasizes disciplined adherence to recognized textual and ritual forms (Vedic hymn and Saṃhitā-based practice) as the recommended pathway for religious or philosophical attainment.
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