Varaha Purana 102.2: Adhyaya 102, Shloka 2
The Merit and Ritual Procedure of Donating a Jaggery Cow
Guḍadhenu
सौवर्णे मुखशृङ्गे च दन्ताश्च मणिमौक्तिकैः । ग्रीवा रत्नमयी त्वस्या घ्राणं गन्धमयं तथा ॥
sauvarṇe mukhaśṛṅge ca dantāś ca maṇimauktikaiḥ | grīvā ratnamayī tv asyā ghrāṇaṁ gandhamayaṁ tathā ||
その顔と角は黄金で作り、歯は宝石と真珠で飾るべきである。首は諸宝より成し、また鼻も芳香ある物質によって形作るべきである。
Hotṛ (continuation of the Guḍadhenu instruction; explicit speaker named in 102.2)
FAQs
Such inventory-like descriptions inform historians about idealized luxury materials in ritual imagination and the symbolic economy of gifting in Purāṇic milieus.
No location is mentioned; the verse is concerned with the crafted object’s features.
To offer a gift prepared with care and value, suggesting that generosity is expressed through both intention and the quality of the offering.
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