Varaha Purana 73.18: Adhyaya 73, Shloka 18
Rudra’s Hymn: Vision of Nārāyaṇa, the Emergence of the Ādityas, and the Mutual Boon of Hari and Hara
समस्तविश्वार्थिहाराय शम्भवे सहस्रसूर्यानिलतिग्मतेजसे । समस्तविद्याविधृताय चक्रिणे समस्तगीर्वाणनुते सदाऽनघ ॥ ७३.१८ ॥
samastaviśvārthihārāya śambhave sahasrasūryānilatigmatejase | samastavidyāvidhṛtāya cakriṇe samastagīrvāṇanute sadā'nagha || 73.18 ||
शंभु को नमस्कार है, जो दुनिया के सारे दुख दूर करता है। उनकी चमक हज़ारों सूरज और हवा जैसी तेज़ है। वो चक्र पकड़ते हैं, सारे ज्ञान उनके पास है। सारे देवता उनकी सदा स्तुति करते हैं। हे बिना पाप वाले, आप बिल्कुल साफ हैं।
Varāha (default, as speaker is not explicit in the provided fragment)
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It exemplifies Purāṇic stotra-style composition, where a deity is praised through dense epithets and cosmic imagery (e.g., “thousand suns”), reflecting a common literary mode for framing narrative authority and devotional orientation.
No geographic toponym appears in this verse; it functions as a hymn of praise rather than a sacred-geography reference.
The verse foregrounds the ideal of alleviating universal suffering (“remover of the world’s afflictions”) and presents faultlessness (anagha) as a normative spiritual attribute, expressed in a non-prescriptive, laudatory form.
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