Varaha Purana 28.23: Adhyaya 28, Shloka 23
The Manifestation of Māyā as Durgā/Kātyāyanī and the Slaying of Vaitrāsura
चक्रं शङ्खं गदां पाशं खङ्गं घण्टां तथा धनुः । धारयन्ती तथा चान्यान् बद्धतूणा जलाद् बहिः ॥ २८.२३ ॥
cakraṃ śaṅkhaṃ gadāṃ pāśaṃ khaṅgaṃ ghaṇṭāṃ tathā dhanuḥ | dhārayantī tathā cānyān baddhatūṇā jalād bahiḥ || 28.23 ||
അവൾ ചക്രം, ശംഖം, ഗദ, പാശം, ഖഡ്ഗം, ഘണ്ട, ധനുസ് എന്നിവയും മറ്റു ആയുധങ്ങളും ധരിച്ചു, ബന്ധിച്ച തൂണീരോടെ ജലത്തിന് പുറത്തു നിന്നു।
Varāha (default narrator/instructor framework; explicit speaker not stated in fragment)
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It preserves a standardized Purāṇic catalog of divine weapons and attributes, useful for comparing textual iconography with temple sculpture, manuscript illustration traditions, and later stotra literature.
No specific place-name appears in this verse; the only spatial marker is 'jalād bahiḥ' (“outside/from the water”), a common narrative motif rather than a precise geographic identifier.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to frame authority and protection through iconographic symbolism (weapons as signs of safeguarding order), without stating a direct moral injunction.
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