Varaha Purana 93.6: Adhyaya 93, Shloka 6
The Battle of Mahiṣa Daitya and the Gods
आदित्यैर्वसुभिः साध्यै रुद्रैश्च निहता भृशम् । असुरा यातुधानाश्च संख्यापूरणकेवलाः ॥
ādityair vasubhiḥ sādhyai rudraiś ca nihatā bhṛśam | asurā yātudhānāś ca saṃkhyāpūraṇakevalāḥ ||
आदित्य, वसु, साध्य और रुद्र ने मिलके असुरों को मारा। यातुधान भी मारे गए। इतने सारे दुश्मन मारे कि लगता था बस गिनने के लिए मारे जा रहे हैं।
Varāha (continuing narrative frame)
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It shows how Purāṇic authors use enumerative rhetoric to compress large-scale violence into formulaic phrases, relevant for literary and discourse analysis.
No location is named; the focus is on groups of divine beings and the scale of battle.
Indirectly, it underscores the destructiveness of conflict by reducing individuals to mere numbers, a narrative critique through rhetorical compression.
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