Varaha Purana 111.3: Adhyaya 111, Shloka 3
The Eulogy of Donating a Tawny (Kapilā) Cow
कपिलायाः शिरो ग्रीवा सर्वतीर्थानि भामिनि ॥ पितामहनीयॊगाच्च निवसन्ति हि निश्चयः ॥
kapilāyāḥ śiro grīvā sarvatīrthāni bhāmini || pitāmahaniyogāc ca nivasanti hi niścayaḥ ||
ഹേ ഭാമിനി! കപിലാ ധേനുവിന്റെ ശിരസ്സിലും ഗ്രീവയിലും സർവ്വ തീർത്ഥങ്ങളും വസിക്കുന്നു; പിതാമഹൻ ബ്രഹ്മാവിന്റെ നിയോഗത്താൽ ഇത് നിശ്ചയമായതാണ്.
Hotā (instructional voice; addressee ‘bhāmini’ likely the inquirer within the dialogue frame)
FAQs
It illustrates a Purāṇic strategy of mapping tīrtha-concepts onto ritual objects/animals, revealing how sacred geography could be ritually internalized and symbolically condensed.
No single site is named; the verse generalizes to “all tīrthas,” a totalizing sacred-geography motif rather than a specific place.
To regard the gifted cow with heightened reverence, treating the act of giving as participation in a sanctified, tīrtha-like field.
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