Varaha Purana 56.3: Adhyaya 56, Shloka 3
Ritual Procedure for the Dhanyavrata
Prosperity Vow
वैश्वानराय पादौ तु अग्नयेत्युदरं तथा । हविर्भुञ्जाय च उरो द्रविणोदेति वै भुजौ ॥ ५६.३ ॥
vaiśvānarāya pādau tu agnayety udaraṃ tathā | havirbhuñjāya ca uro draviṇodeti vai bhujau || 56.3 ||
പാദങ്ങൾ ‘വൈശ്വാനര’ത്തിന്റേതാണ്; ഉദരം ‘അഗ്നി’ എന്നു വിളിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. വക്ഷസ്ഥലം ‘ഹവിർഭുഞ്ജ’ എന്നും, ഭുജങ്ങൾ ‘ദ്രവിണോദേതി’ എന്നും അറിയപ്പെടുന്നു।
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It preserves a Purāṇic method of mapping Vedic divine epithets (e.g., Vaiśvānara, Agni) onto bodily regions, reflecting continuity with earlier Vedic ritual and cosmological vocabulary.
No geographic site is named in this verse; it is primarily a ritual-cosmological and lexical mapping of terms to body-parts.
Rather than an explicit moral directive, the verse communicates a philosophical instruction of seeing the human body as integrated with cosmic/ritual principles, encouraging a disciplined, systems-oriented view of self and cosmos.
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