Varaha Purana 2.64: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 64
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
सर्वं दृष्ट्वैव मे राजन् कुमार्यापहृतं क्षणात् । ततोऽहं विस्मयार्विष्टश्चिन्ताशोकसमन्वितः ॥ २.६३ ॥
sarvaṃ dṛṣṭvaiva me rājan kumāryā apahṛtaṃ kṣaṇāt | tato 'haṃ vismayārviṣṭaś cintāśokasamanvitaḥ || 2.63 ||
ഹേ രാജാവേ, എല്ലാം കണ്ട ഉടനെ കന്യ ഒരു ക്ഷണത്തിൽ അപഹരിക്കപ്പെട്ടതായി ഞാൻ അറിഞ്ഞു. തുടർന്ന് ഞാൻ അത്ഭുതത്തിൽ മുങ്ങി, ചിന്തയും ശോകവും നിറഞ്ഞവനായി.
Varāha (default framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic narrative technique: reporting events to a royal interlocutor (rājan), using concise emotional descriptors to frame the ethical and social stakes of the episode.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it functions as a narrative transition describing an abduction and the speaker’s reaction.
Implicitly, the verse foregrounds the social gravity of abduction and the duty of attentive response by authority figures, conveyed through the speaker’s shock, anxiety, and grief.
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