Varaha Purana 3.13: Adhyaya 3, Shloka 13
Nārada’s Account of a Former Birth and a Hymn to Nārāyaṇa
परात्परं चापरमं प्रधानं परास्पदं शुद्धपदं विशालम् । परात्परेशं पुरुषं पुराणं नारायणं स्तौमि विशुद्धभावः ॥ ३.१३ ॥
parātparaṃ cāparamaṃ pradhānaṃ parāspadaṃ śuddhapadaṃ viśālam | parātpareśaṃ puruṣaṃ purāṇaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ staumi viśuddhabhāvaḥ || 3.13 ||
വിശുദ്ധഭാവത്തോടെ ഞാൻ നാരായണനെ സ്തുതിക്കുന്നു—അവൻ പരാത്പരനും പരമനും; പ്രധാനം തത്ത്വം, പരമാശ്രയം, ശുദ്ധവും വിശാലവുമായ പദം; പരാത്പരേശൻ, ആദിപുരുഷൻ, പുരാണപുരുഷൻ।
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
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It functions as a conventional Purāṇic stuti (praise-invocation) that frames the discourse with cosmological and philosophical epithets, a common manuscript feature used to establish authority and thematic orientation.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is primarily a doctrinal invocation describing transcendence and primordiality.
The verse foregrounds inner purification (viśuddha-bhāva) as a prerequisite for speech and study, presenting an epistemic-ethical stance rather than a prescriptive social rule.
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