Varaha Purana 32.31: Adhyaya 32, Shloka 31
Dharma as the Bull-Form: Soma’s Transgression and the Institution of the Thirteenth Lunar Day Observance
इत्युक्तमात्रः प्रपितामहोऽधुना सुरासुराणामथ पश्यतां नृप । अदृश्यतामगमत् स्वालयांश्च जग्मुः सुराः सवृषा वीतशोकाः ॥ ३२.३२ ॥
ityuktamātraḥ prapitāmaho 'dhunā surāsurāṇām atha paśyatāṁ nṛpa | adṛśyatām agamat svālayāṁś ca jagmuḥ surāḥ savṛṣā vītaśokāḥ || 32.32 ||
ഹേ നൃപാ! പ്രപിതാമഹൻ ഇങ്ങനെ പറഞ്ഞതുമാത്രത്തിൽ, ദേവാസുരന്മാർ നോക്കി നിൽക്കേ അദ്ദേഹം അദൃശ്യമാവുകയുണ്ടായി. തുടർന്ന് ദേവന്മാർ വൃഷയോടുകൂടെ ദുഃഖരഹിതരായി തങ്ങളുടെ ധാമങ്ങളിലേക്കു പോയി।
Varāha (narrative frame; specific speaker not explicit in this verse)
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic narrative technique: a speech-act immediately followed by disappearance (adṛśyatā), marking a transition or closure in the episode before the listening king and the assembled divine and anti-divine parties.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it instead references “svālaya” (one’s own abode), a cosmological rather than terrestrial location.
The verse primarily functions as narrative closure; its philosophical instruction is indirect—emphasizing the resolution of distress (vītaśoka) following authoritative guidance and the restoration of order.
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