Varaha Purana 21.68: Adhyaya 21, Shloka 68
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari-Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
Pūrva Bhāga · Stotra / Nāmāvalī-style Praise (Devotional Hymn Segment)
पूष्णोऽस्य दन्तान्तक भीमरूप प्रलम्बभोगीन्द्रलुलन्तकण्ठ । विशालदेहाच्युत नीलकण्ठ प्रसीद विश्वेश्वर विश्वमूर्त्ते ॥ २१.६९ ॥
pūṣṇo 'sya dantāntaka bhīmarūpa pralambabhogīndralulantakaṇṭha | viśāladehācyuta nīlakaṇṭha prasīda viśveśvara viśvamūrte || 21.69 ||
pUShNo.asya dantAntaka bhImarUpa pralambabhogIndralulantakaNTha | vishAladehAchyuta nIlakaNTha prasIda vishveshvara vishvamUrtte || 21.69 ||
ഹേ പൂഷന്റെ ദന്താന്തകാ, ഭീമരൂപാ! ദീർഘഫണങ്ങളുള്ള നാഗരാജന്റെ തൂങ്ങുന്ന ചുരുളുകളാൽ അലങ്കൃതമായ കണ്ഠമുള്ളവനേ! ഹേ വിശാലദേഹ അച്യുതാ, ഹേ നീലകണ്ഠാ—പ്രസന്നനാകണമേ; ഹേ വിശ്വേശ്വരാ, ഹേ വിശ്വമൂർത്തേ!
Sandhi Notes
- पूष्णोऽस्य = पूष्णः + अस्य
- विशालदेहाच्युत = विशालदेह + अच्युत
Varāha
The divine ‘Acyuta’ can be invoked through multiple mythic registers; names point to functions, not separate ultimates.
Use epithets as contemplative handles: meditate on ‘viśvamūrti’ to see the sacred in all phenomena, including fearsome forces.
Mythic epithets (Pūṣan’s tooth, Nīlakaṇṭha, serpent-lord) are layered onto ‘Acyuta’ to portray the supreme as the total cosmic body that contains fierce and auspicious aspects.
Serpent coils at the throat evoke time/saṃsāra bound and mastered; ‘viśva-mūrti’ frames the deity as the sacrificial cosmos (yajña-puruṣa logic) though expressed in Rudra-myth vocabulary.
Viśvarūpa/viśvamūrti doctrine: all forms and functions are modes of one reality; fierce myths become symbols of transcendence over death and poison (kāla/viṣa).
Continuation of the same stotra sequence (21.21.68–71)
FAQs
It preserves a stotra-like cluster of epithets that reflect Purāṇic devotional style and the historical blending of iconographic titles across sectarian vocabularies in medieval Sanskrit transmission.
No specific geographic toponym appears in this verse; it is primarily an address using divine epithets rather than a sacred-site description.
The verse does not present a direct moral injunction; its philosophical instruction is devotional and cosmological—portraying the addressed deity as 'Lord of the universe' and 'embodiment of the cosmos,' emphasizing an all-encompassing metaphysical identity.
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