Varaha Purana 67.7: Adhyaya 67, Shloka 7
On the Two ‘Sita-Kṛṣṇā’ Figures, the Sevenfold Ocean, and the Twelvefold Year
Pūrva Bhāga · Cosmological Narrative (Temporal-Cosmic Emergence Motif)
दाम्पत्यं तदहोरात्रं सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ ततः । ततो जगत्समुत्तस्थौ देवस्यास्य नृपोत्तम ॥ ६७.७ ॥
dāmpatyaṃ tad ahorātraṃ sūryācandramasau tataḥ | tato jagat samuttasthau devasyāsya nṛpottama || 67.7 ||
dampatyaM tadahorAtraM sUryAchandramasau tataH | tato jagat samuttasthau devasyAsya nRRipottama || 67.7 ||
പിന്നീട് അതിൽ നിന്ന് ദാമ്പത്യം (യുഗലബന്ധം) ഉദിച്ചു; അതിൽ നിന്ന് പകലും രാത്രിയും; പിന്നെ സൂര്യനും ചന്ദ്രനും. തുടർന്ന്—ഹേ നൃപോത്തമാ—ഈ ദേവനോടു ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട ജഗത്ത് ഉദ്ഭവിച്ചു.
Sandhi Notes
- देवस्यास्य → देवस्य अस्य (स्वर-सन्धि)
Varāha
All differentiated reality (time cycles and luminaries) emerges in sequence from the divine principle and belongs to it.
See daily cycles (day/night) and celestial order as reminders of divine governance; cultivate gratitude and disciplined living aligned with cosmic rhythm.
Cosmogony through ordered emergence: polarity/union (dāmpatya) gives rise to day-night, then luminaries, then the manifest world—everything as ‘of this Deity’.
Day-night and sun-moon as ritual timekeepers enabling yajña; conjugal/polar union as generative principle paralleling complementary ritual forces.
The world’s arising is dependent (paratantra) upon the Lord; reinforces īśvara-kāraṇatva (God as cause) and the sacrality of cosmic order.
Adhyāya 67: time-personification leading into generation of ahorātra and luminaries, culminating in Viṣṇu-supremacy statement
FAQs
It reflects a Purāṇic cosmological style that narrates the emergence of temporal order (day/night) and luminaries (Sun/Moon) as stages in the unfolding of the world, a common template in early medieval Sanskrit compendia.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the content is cosmological rather than topographical.
The verse does not present a direct ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction is cosmological—linking the ordered world (time and luminaries) to a single overarching divine principle.
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