Varaha Purana 9.25: Adhyaya 9, Shloka 25
The Sequence of Creation, the Emergence of the Praṇava, and the Fish Incarnation’s Retrieval of the Vedas
लोकमार्गस्थितिं कर्त्तुं निद्राज्ञानेन मोहितः । चिन्तयामास देवेशो नात्र वेदा व्यवस्थिताः ॥ ९.२५ ॥
lokamārgasthitiṁ karttuṁ nidrājñānena mohitaḥ | cintayāmāsa deveśo nātra vedā vyavasthitāḥ || 9.25 ||
നിദ്രയും അജ്ഞാനവും മൂലം മോഹിതനായ ദേവേശൻ ലോകമാർഗ്ഗത്തിന്റെ ക്രമം സ്ഥാപിക്കുവാൻ ചിന്തിച്ചു—“ഇവിടെ വേദങ്ങൾ ഇനിയും യഥാസ്ഥാനമായി ക്രമീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ടിട്ടില്ല” എന്നു।
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It reflects a Purāṇic motif of (re)establishing cosmic and normative order, framing the Vedas as a paradigm of structured knowledge within early Sanskrit intellectual history.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the focus is conceptual (world-order and Vedic arrangement) rather than topographical.
The verse foregrounds the necessity of establishing an ordered framework for life and knowledge (lokamārga-sthiti), implying that confusion (sleep/ignorance) must be overcome through proper organization of guiding principles.
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