Varaha Purana 32.30: Adhyaya 32, Shloka 30
Dharma as the Bull-Form: Soma’s Transgression and the Institution of the Thirteenth Lunar Day Observance
चतुष्ट्रिपाद् द्व्येकपाच्च प्रभो त्वं कृतादिभिर्लक्ष्यसे येन लोकैः । तथा तथा कर्मभूमौ नभश्च प्रायोयुक्तः स्वगृहं पाहि विश्वम् ॥ ३२.३१ ॥
catuṣṭripād dvyekapācca prabho tvaṃ kṛtādibhir lakṣyase yena lokaiḥ | tathā tathā karmabhūmau nabhaś ca prāyoyuktaḥ svagṛhaṃ pāhi viśvam || 32.31 ||
ಹೇ ಪ್ರಭೋ! ಕೃತಾದಿ ಯುಗಗಳ ಮೂಲಕ ಲೋಕಗಳು ನಿನ್ನನ್ನು ಕ್ರಮವಾಗಿ ನಾಲ್ಕು, ಮೂರು, ಎರಡು ಮತ್ತು ಒಂದು ‘ಪಾದ’ಗಳ ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಗುರುತಿಸುತ್ತವೆ. ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಕರ್ಮಭೂಮಿಯಲ್ಲೂ ಆಕಾಶದಲ್ಲೂ ಪ್ರಾಯಃ ಸದಾ ನಿರತವಾಗಿ, ಸ್ವಗೃಹದಂತೆ ಈ ವಿಶ್ವವನ್ನು ರಕ್ಷಿಸು।
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It preserves a widely attested Purāṇic and Dharmaśāstric motif: dharma is described as standing on four ‘feet’ in Kṛta Yuga and progressively diminishing across later yugas. This offers a compact witness to medieval Sanskrit conceptions of moral time and cosmic order.
No specific pilgrimage site or named geography is identified in this verse; the terms karmabhūmi (‘realm of action’) and nabhas (‘sky/space’) function as broad cosmographic domains rather than a pinpointed location.
The verse frames a philosophical instruction of stewardship: the Lord is asked to ‘protect the universe’ and to regard it as ‘one’s own dwelling,’ emphasizing responsibility for the world across terrestrial and celestial spheres.
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