Varaha Purana 4.7: Adhyaya 4, Shloka 7
On Nārāyaṇa’s Ten Avatāras and Eightfold Manifestations, and the Account of King Aśvaśirā
चतुर्थी वायुमूर्तिः स्यादाकाशाख्या तु पञ्चमी । एतास्तु मूरतयस्तस्य क्षेत्रज्ञत्वं हि मद्धियाम् । मूर्त्तित्रयं तथा तस्य इत्येताश्चाष्टमूर्तयः ॥ ४.७ ॥
caturthī vāyumūrtiḥ syād ākāśākhyā tu pañcamī | etās tu mūratayas tasya kṣetrajñatvaṃ hi mad-dhiyām | mūrtitrayaṃ tathā tasya ity etāś cāṣṭamūrtayaḥ || 4.7 ||
第四は風の形相であると言われ、第五は虚空（アーカーシャ、エーテル）と呼ばれる。これらの御形相は、わたしの理解によれば、「クシェートラジュニャ」（場を知る者）としての位を示すものとして把握されるべきである。また彼には三つの形相の組もある。かくして、これらが八形相（アシュタムールティ）である。
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It preserves a Purāṇic articulation of the aṣṭamūrti (eightfold manifestation) framework, a well-attested classical schema used to systematize cosmological elements and divine embodiment across early Sanskrit traditions.
No specific place-name appears in this verse; the content is primarily cosmological/ontological rather than topographical.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse offers a philosophical instruction: to understand elemental forms (wind and ether among them) as expressions of a single principle characterized as kṣetrajña, the ‘Knower of the Field’.
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