Varaha Purana 9.17: Adhyaya 9, Shloka 17
The Sequence of Creation, the Emergence of the Praṇava, and the Fish Incarnation’s Retrieval of the Vedas
ऊरुभ्यामपि वैश्यांश्च पद्भ्यां शूद्रांस्तथा विभुः । ततस्तु ससृजे यक्षान् राक्षसांश्च तथा विभुः ॥ ९.१७ ॥
ūrubhyām api vaiśyāṁś ca padbhyāṁ śūdrāṁs tathā vibhuḥ | tatastu sasṛje yakṣān rākṣasāṁś ca tathā vibhuḥ || 9.17 ||
भगवान ने अपनी जाँघों से वैश्य पैदा किए। और पाँव से शूद्र बनाए। उसके बाद उन्होंने यक्ष और राक्षस भी बनाए।
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It reflects a widely attested Purāṇic and Dharmic motif that correlates social categories with a cosmic body schema, offering evidence for how later Sanskrit literature systematized social and mythic classifications within cosmogonic narration.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; it focuses on cosmogony and the origins of social groups and mythic beings.
Rather than a direct injunction, the verse frames a worldview of ordered creation in which social roles and categories are presented as parts of a structured cosmos, a common Purāṇic strategy for explaining cultural institutions through cosmological narration.
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