Varaha Purana 8.30: Adhyaya 8, Shloka 30
Dialogue on the Ethical Limits of Subsistence and the Five Great Sacrifices
Dharmavyādha, Mātaṅga, and Prasanna
दिव्यो भौटस्तथा पैत्रो मानुषो ब्राह्म एव च । एते पञ्च महायज्ञा ब्रह्मणा निर्मिताः पुरा ॥ ८.३० ॥
divyo bhautas tathā paitro mānuṣo brāhma eva ca | ete pañca mahāyajñā brahmaṇā nirmitāḥ purā || 8.30 ||
ब्रह्मा ने बहुत पहले पाँच बड़े यग्य बनाए थे। पहला देवताओं के लिए, दूसरा प्रकृति के लिए, तीसरा अपने पूर्वजों के लिए। चौथा इंसानों के लिए और पाँचवा पंडितों के लिए। यह पाँचों बड़े काम हैं जो ब्रह्मा ने शुरू किए थे।
Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It reflects a Dharma-oriented classification of key social and ritual obligations (the five great sacrifices), a theme widely attested across Purāṇic and Smṛti literature as a framework for household and communal responsibility.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is thematic, focusing on an ethical-ritual taxonomy rather than sacred geography.
The verse foregrounds an ideal of reciprocal responsibility—toward the divine, the natural world and living beings, ancestors, fellow humans, and sacred learning—by presenting these as foundational categories of duty.
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