Varaha Purana 73.42: Adhyaya 73, Shloka 42
Rudra’s Hymn: Vision of Nārāyaṇa, the Emergence of the Ādityas, and the Mutual Boon of Hari and Hara
एवमुक्तः पुनर्वाक्यमुवाचोमापतिर्मुदा । अन्यं देहि वरं देव प्रसिद्धं सर्वजन्तुषु ॥ ७३.४२ ॥
evam uktaḥ punar vākyam uvāca omāpatir mudā | anyaṃ dehi varaṃ deva prasiddhaṃ sarvajantuṣu || 73.42 ||
यह सुन के उमा के पति खुश हो गए। फिर से उन्होंने कहा, देव, मुझे एक और वरद दो। वो वरद सब जीवों में फेमस हो।
Omāpati (Śiva)
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It reflects a common Purāṇic narrative device: a deity-to-deity dialogue structured around the requesting and granting of boons, which frames subsequent doctrinal or cultural material.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment.
The verse primarily functions as narrative transition; it does not state a direct ethical injunction, but emphasizes reputational universality (prasiddha among all beings) as a criterion for what is requested.
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