Varaha Purana 71.15: Adhyaya 71, Shloka 15
Vision of the Trimūrti in Rudra, the Gautama Curse, the Manifestation of the Godāvarī, and the Niḥśvāsa-saṃhitā Account
कस्यचित्त्वथ कालस्य महती द्वादशाब्दिका । अनावृष्टिर्द्विजवरा अभवल्लोमहर्षिणी ॥ ७१.१५ ॥
kasyacit tv atha kālasya mahatī dvādaśābdikā | anāvṛṣṭir dvijavarā abhaval lomaharṣiṇī || 71.15 ||
फिर एक वक्त ऐसा आया जब बारह साल तक बारिश नहीं हुई। यह इतनी बड़ी सूख गई थी कि लोगों के बाल खड़े हो जाते थे सुन के। ब्राह्मण लोग, यह बहुत बड़ी बात थी।
Varāha
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It preserves a common Purāṇic literary motif of a prolonged multi-year drought (here, twelve years), which functions as a narrative device to frame social, ecological, and ethical responses to environmental stress in premodern Sanskrit literature.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it provides temporal framing for a drought episode without localizing it to a particular tīrtha or region in the given excerpt.
The verse itself is descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to foreground the severity of ecological imbalance (anāvṛṣṭi) as a context in which subsequent guidance on conduct, responsibility, and communal resilience may be articulated.
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