Varaha Purana 1.8: Adhyaya 1, Shloka 8
Praise of Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Foundational Questions
अन्यद्धिरण्यकशिपुर्वरदानेन दर्पितः । अबाधमानः पृथिवीं स त्वया विनिपातितः । बलिस्तु बद्धो भगवंस्त्वया वामनरूपिणा ॥ १.९ ॥
anyad dhiraṇyakaśipur varadānena darpitaḥ | abādhamānaḥ pṛthivīṃ sa tvayā vinipātitaḥ | balis tu baddho bhagavaṃs tvayā vāmanarūpiṇā || 1.9 ||
കൂടാതെ: വരദാനത്താൽ അഹങ്കരിച്ച ഹിരണ്യകശിപു ഭൂമിയെ പീഡിപ്പിച്ചു; നീ അവനെ വീഴ്ത്തി നശിപ്പിച്ചു. ഹേ ഭഗവൻ, വാമനരൂപത്തിൽ നീ ബലിയെ ബന്ധിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു।
Pṛthivī (default dialogue framework: Earth addressing Varāha/Viṣṇu)
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It situates the Varāha Purāṇa within a wider Purāṇic narrative network by referencing well-known avatāra episodes (Vāmana and the defeat of Hiraṇyakaśipu), using them as exemplars of restoring cosmic and social order when power becomes oppressive.
No specific pilgrimage site or terrestrial location is named in this verse; the only geographic referent is “Pṛthivī” (the Earth) as a cosmological entity.
The verse frames arrogance empowered by exceptional privilege (vara-dāna) and the oppression of the Earth as ethically destabilizing, and presents restraint of such power as a principle aligned with maintaining order and protecting the world.
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