Varaha Purana 10.2: Adhyaya 10, Shloka 2
The Threefold Division by the Guṇas, the Deities’ Attainment of Worship, and the Opening of the Durjaya Episode
वृद्धायामथ सृष्टौ तु सर्वे देवाः पुरातनम् । नारायणाख्यं पुरुषं यजन्तो विविधैर्मखैः ॥ १०.२ ॥
vṛddhāyām atha sṛṣṭau tu sarve devāḥ purātanam | nārāyaṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ yajanto vividhair makhaiḥ || 10.2 ||
सृष्टी वाढल्यावर सर्व देवांनी विविध यज्ञांनी नारायण नावाच्या आदिपुरुषाची उपासना केली।
Varāha (default narrative voice per dialogue framework)
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It reflects a Purāṇic synthesis in which cosmic history is narrated alongside ritual culture, presenting the gods’ sacrificial activity as a marker of world-order in expanded/renewed creation.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is cosmological (creation’s expansion) and ritual (the gods’ worship).
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse foregrounds a philosophical model of maintaining order through disciplined, communal rites and acknowledgment of a primordial cosmic principle (puruṣa).
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