Varaha Purana 71.63: Adhyaya 71, Shloka 63
Vision of the Trimūrti in Rudra, the Gautama Curse, the Manifestation of the Godāvarī, and the Niḥśvāsa-saṃhitā Account
एतद्वः कथितं विप्रा मया धर्मस्य लक्षणम् । एतस्माद्विपरीतो यः स पाषण्डरतो भवेत् ॥ ७१.६३ ॥
etad vaḥ kathitaṃ viprā mayā dharmasya lakṣaṇam | etasmād viparīto yaḥ sa pāṣaṇḍarato bhavet || 71.63 ||
ഹേ വിപ്രന്മാരേ, ധര്മ്മത്തിന്റെ ലക്ഷണം ഞാന് നിങ്ങള്ക്കു പറഞ്ഞു. ഇതിന് വിരുദ്ധമായി നടക്കുന്നവന് പാഷണ്ഡത്തില് ആസക്തനാകും.
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It reflects a common Purāṇic strategy of defining dharma through authoritative instruction and contrasting it with pāṣaṇḍa, indicating intra-traditional debates about legitimate practice and ethical norms in classical Sanskrit literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it functions as a doctrinal-ethical statement rather than a tīrtha or sacred-geography passage.
The verse asserts that dharma has identifiable characteristics and that conduct opposed to those characteristics leads to pāṣaṇḍa—framed here as deviation into heterodox or misleading forms of religiosity.
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