Varaha Purana 113.25: Adhyaya 113, Shloka 25
Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
सृष्ट्वा किमादिशः सर्वां न प्राज्ञायते किंचन ॥ न वाति पवनस्तत्र न चैवाग्निर्ज्वलत्यपि
sṛṣṭvā kimādiśaḥ sarvāṃ na prājñāyate kiṃcana || na vāti pavanastatra na caivāgnirjvalatyapi
सृष्टी केल्यानंतर हे सर्व जग कसे आहे—काहीच कळत नाही; तिथे वारा वाहत नाही आणि अग्नीही जळत नाही।
Pṛthivī
FAQs
It records a cosmological topos—an unmanifest or inert condition—shared across Indian cosmogonic literature, useful for comparative studies of creation theories.
No earthly location is indicated; the setting is a cosmological ‘there’ (tatra) describing pre-manifest conditions.
Implicitly, it emphasizes epistemic humility: before order emerges, ordinary categories of experience (wind/fire) do not apply.
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