Varaha Purana 84.5 — Adhyaya 84, Shloka 5
Description of the Northern Regions: Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya, Uttarakuru, Candradvīpa, Sūryadvīpa, and Rudrākara
एकादशहस्त्राणि समानां तेन जीवते । शतान्यन्यानि जीवन्ते वर्षाणां दश पञ्च च ॥ ८४.५ ॥
ekādaśa-hastrāṇi samānāṃ tena jīvate | śatāny anyāni jīvante varṣāṇāṃ daśa pañca ca || 84.5 ||
その尺度によれば、人は一万一千のサマー（年）を生きる。ほかの者はさらに幾百年を生き、すなわち十年と五年（合わせて十五年）を加えて生きる。
Varāha
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"curious (implied)","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"None","karmic_consequence":"None"}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"reflection-on-time","core_concept":"Āyus is presented as variable and conditioned; time is a cosmic parameter, not a uniform human constant.","practical_application":"Use awareness of time’s relativity to reduce pride and urgency-driven adharma; invest in dharma as the stable value across changing measures of lifespan."}
Subject Matter: ["Cosmology","Chronology","Ethics"]
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
Type: cosmographic time/age specification
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 84.84.3 (ten-thousand-year lifespan motif); Varāha Purāṇa 84.84.6 (diet/ecology sustaining life)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A didactic tableau: Varāha’s cosmographic narration implied while a symbolic time-scale is shown—rows of years or a cosmic abacus—paired with serene long-lived inhabitants.","item_prompts":["symbolic counting device (abacus/scroll with numerals)","calendar wheel or time-circle","figures indicating long life (steady posture, youthful elders)","subtle cosmic backdrop (stars/mandala)"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural: a palm-leaf manuscript motif with stylized numerals; circular kāla-maṇḍala behind; restrained palette emphasizing instruction.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore: gold-leaf kāla-cakra (time wheel) with embossed numerals; figures in frontal, iconic arrangement.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore: fine-lined manuscript scroll with neat numeration; soft cosmic gradient; contemplative figures.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari: miniature-style scroll unfurled with numbers; a simple time-wheel; delicate starry sky."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"measured, explanatory","suggested_raga":"Kalyani","pace":"steady","voice_tone":"neutral, precise, teacherly"}
FAQs
It preserves a Purāṇic style of enumerating lifespan through traditional units (e.g., samā/varṣa), reflecting classical Indian interests in cosmological chronology and human longevity as part of broader time-reckoning systems.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it is concerned with measures of lifespan/time rather than sacred geography.
The verse does not directly issue an ethical injunction; its philosophical contribution is descriptive—situating human (or beings’) lifespan within a quantified, tradition-based framework of time.
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