Varaha Purana 71.61: Adhyaya 71, Shloka 61
Vision of the Trimūrti in Rudra, the Gautama Curse, the Manifestation of the Godāvarī, and the Niḥśvāsa-saṃhitā Account
प्राग्गौतमाग्निना दग्धाः पुनर्मद्वचनाद्द्विजाः । नरकं तु गमिष्यन्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ ७१.६१ ॥
prāg gautamāgninā dagdhāḥ punar madvacanād dvijāḥ | narakaṃ tu gamiṣyanti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā || 71.61 ||
गौतम की आग ने पहले ही इन्हे जला दिया था। अब मेरा बोल सुनके यह नरक में जाएंगे। इसमे कोई शक नहीं।
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It exemplifies a Purāṇic mode of ethical instruction where narrative authority and cosmological consequence (e.g., naraka) are used to frame moral causality and social responsibility within the broader Dharma discourse.
No explicit geographic location is named in this verse fragment; the focus is on persons (dvijāḥ) and a figure named Gautama, rather than on a pilgrimage site or region.
The verse asserts the inevitability of negative consequences for certain actions or statuses, emphasizing decisive moral causality and the rhetorical finality of the speaker’s pronouncement ('nātra kāryā vicāraṇā').
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