Varaha Purana 201.58: Adhyaya 201, Shloka 58
The Battle between the Rākṣasas and Yama’s Attendant-Messengers
खादन्ति चैव घ्नन्ति स्म चित्रगुप्तेन चोदिताः ॥ व्याधीनां च सहस्राणि दूतानां च महाबलाः ॥
khādanti caiva ghnanti sma citraguptena coditāḥ || vyādhīnāṃ ca sahasrāṇi dūtānāṃ ca mahābalāḥ
ചിത്രഗുപ്തന്റെ പ്രേരണയാൽ അവർ ഭക്ഷിക്കുകയും പ്രഹരിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു; അവിടെ രോഗങ്ങളുടെ ആയിരങ്ങൾയും മഹാബലമുള്ള ദൂതന്മാരും കൂടെയുണ്ട്.
Narrator (Citragupta explicitly mentioned as instigator/administrator)
FAQs
It documents the Purāṇic imagination of moral administration where Citragupta functions as a record-keeper/dispatcher within a judicial cosmology.
No geographic location is identified; the imagery belongs to a cosmological-judicial setting.
Actions are portrayed as accountable within an ordered system of consequences, administered through agents and afflictions.
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