Varaha Purana 49.35: Adhyaya 49, Shloka 35
The Padmanābha Dvādaśī Observance, with the Eulogy of Lamp-Offering Merit
इति राजा वचः श्रुत्वा अगस्त्यस्य महात्मनः । अल्पोपदेशराजासौ पप्रच्छ मुनिपुङ्गवम् ॥ ४९.३५ ॥
iti rājā vacaḥ śrutvā agastyasya mahātmanaḥ | alpopadeśa-rājāsau papraccha muni-puṅgavam || 49.35 ||
ഇങ്ങനെ മഹാത്മാവായ അഗസ്ത്യന്റെ വചനങ്ങൾ കേട്ട ആ രാജാവ്—അൽപ ഉപദേശം ലഭിച്ചവനായി—മുനിശ്രേഷ്ഠനോടു വീണ്ടും ചോദിച്ചു.
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic pedagogical structure: a royal listener receives a teaching from a sage and then continues the inquiry, reflecting the text’s dialogic method of transmitting dharma, cosmology, and cultural knowledge.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it functions as a narrative hinge introducing further questions after Agastya’s speech.
The verse foregrounds an epistemic ethic: attentive listening (śrutvā) followed by respectful questioning (papraccha) as the appropriate method for clarifying and extending instruction.
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