Varaha Purana 113.16: Adhyaya 113, Shloka 16
Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
धरण्युवाच ॥ शृण्वन्तु ऋषयः सर्वे यत्तद्विष्णुमुखाच्छ्रुतम् ॥ बाढमित्येव तां देवी स्वस्ति ब्रूहीति सोऽब्रवीत्
dharaṇy uvāca || śṛṇvantu ṛṣayaḥ sarve yat tad viṣṇu-mukhāc chrutam || bāḍham ity eva tāṃ devī svasti brūhīti so 'bravīt
ധരണി പറഞ്ഞു—“വിഷ്ണുവിന്റെ മുഖത്തിൽ നിന്നു ശ്രുതമായതു എല്ലാ ഋഷിമാരും കേൾക്കട്ടെ.” അവർ “ബാഢം (തഥാസ്തു)” എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു; പിന്നെ അദ്ദേഹം ദേവിയോട്—“സ്വസ്തി, അഥവാ മംഗളാശീർവാദം, പ്രസ്താവിക്കൂ” എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു.
Dharaṇī (Pṛthivī/Earth); additional voices: sages/unspecified male speaker in closing phrase
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It highlights an oral-authentication motif—‘heard from Viṣṇu’s mouth’—and shows communal reception (‘bāḍham’) typical of Purāṇic performance contexts.
No geographic place-name is present in this verse.
Attentive listening to transmitted teaching and beginning discourse with auspicious speech (svasti) as a cultural-discursive norm.
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