Varaha Purana 39.41: Adhyaya 39, Shloka 41
Discrimination of the Three Bodies and the Dharaṇī Vow: A Manual for Dvādaśī Observance
त्रैलोक्यविजयायेति बाहू सर्वात्मने शिरः । रथाङ्गधारिणे चक्रं शंकरायेति वारिजम् ॥ ३९.४१ ॥
trailokyavijayāyeti bāhū sarvātmane śiraḥ | rathāṅgadhāriṇe cakraṃ śaṅkarāyeti vārijam || 39.41 ||
両腕は「三界の勝利者に」との句をもって捧げ、頭は「一切の自己（全我）に」との句をもって捧げる。円盤（チャクラ）は「輪の武器を執る者に」と唱えて捧げ、蓮華は「シャンカラ（Śaṅkara）に」と唱えて捧げる。
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It preserves a stotra-like sequence of offering-formulas that reflect Purāṇic devotional and iconographic vocabulary, useful for tracing how epithets and emblem-offerings were standardized in medieval Sanskrit religious literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on epithets and symbolic offerings (arms, head, discus, lotus).
The verse primarily conveys a disciplined ritual-philosophical posture of dedicating one’s faculties and symbolic objects through formalized epithets, emphasizing ordered self-offering rather than a direct moral injunction.
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