Varaha Purana 9.29: Adhyaya 9, Shloka 29
The Sequence of Creation, the Emergence of the Praṇava, and the Fish Incarnation’s Retrieval of the Vedas
नमोऽस्तु वेदान्तरगाप्रतर्क्य नमोऽस्तु नारायण मत्स्यरूप । नमोऽस्तु ते सुस्वर विश्वमूर्त्ते नमोऽस्तु विद्याद्वयरूपधारिन् ॥ ९.२९ ॥
namo 'stu vedāntaragāpratarkya namo 'stu nārāyaṇa matsyarūpa | namo 'stu te susvara viśvamūrte namo 'stu vidyādvayarūpadhārin || 9.29 ||
വേദാന്തധാരയിൽ നിലകൊള്ളുകയും തർക്കത്തിന് അതീതനുമായ നിനക്കു നമസ്കാരം. മത്സ്യരൂപം ധരിച്ച നാരായണനേ, നമസ്കാരം. മംഗളവും സുസ്വരവുമായ വചനമുള്ള, വിശ്വമൂർത്തിയായ നിനക്കു നമസ്കാരം. ദ്വിവിധ വിദ്യാരൂപം ധരിച്ച നിനക്കു നമസ്കാരം.
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not given in the excerpt)
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It exemplifies a Purāṇic stuti style that integrates philosophical vocabulary (e.g., Vedānta, apratarkya) with avatar imagery (Matsya), reflecting the genre’s synthesis of devotion, cosmology, and scholastic discourse.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is theological-philosophical invocation rather than sacred geography.
The verse primarily conveys a philosophical posture of humility toward ultimate reality—acknowledging limits of discursive reasoning (tarka) while affirming a cosmological unity (the deity as viśvamūrti).
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