Varaha Purana 7.32: Adhyaya 7, Shloka 32
The Sanctity of Gayā: Raibhya’s Encounter and Hymn to Viṣṇu
Gadādhara
सुरासुरैरर्च्चितपादपङ्कजं केयूरहाराङ्गद मौलिधारिणम् । अब्दौ शयानं च रथाङ्गपाणिनं गदाधरं प्रणमति यः सुखं वसेत् ॥ ७.३२ ॥
surāsurair arcchitapādapaṅkajaṁ keyūrahārāṅgada-maulidhāriṇam | abdau śayānaṁ ca rathāṅgapāṇinaṁ gadādharaṁ praṇamati yaḥ sukhaṁ vaset || 7.32 ||
देवता और असुर सब उनके पाँव को पूजा करते हैं। वो हार और कंगन पहनते हैं, सिर पे मुकुट है। वो समुंदर में सोते हैं और हाथ में चक्र है। जो उनको झुकता है वो खुश रहता है।
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; explicit speaker not present in excerpt)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic literary mode: concise stuti (praise) linked to a practical discipline (praṇāma/bowing). Such verses document the standardization of Vaiṣṇava iconographic markers (cakra, gadā, ocean-reclining posture) and the ethical-psychological framing of devotion as a source of sukha (well-being).
No terrestrial pilgrimage site is named in this verse. The setting is cosmographic: the deity is described as reclining 'in/on the ocean' (abdau śayānam), a mythic-ocean motif rather than a specific mapped location.
The verse promotes a disciplined posture of reverence (praṇāma) toward an idealized, universally venerated figure, presenting respectful attention and humility as a means to cultivate sukha (stable well-being) rather than as coercive obligation.
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