Varaha Purana 2.73: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 73
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
तस्याप्युरसि संविष्टो य एष शुचिरुज्ज्वलः । स सामवेदनामा तु रुद्ररूपी व्यवस्थितः । एष आदित्यवत् पापान्याशु नाशयते स्मृतः ॥ २.७२ ॥
tasyāpy urasi saṁviṣṭo ya eṣa śucir ujjvalaḥ | sa sāmavedanāmā tu rudrarūpī vyavasthitaḥ | eṣa ādityavat pāpāny āśu nāśayate smṛtaḥ || 2.72 ||
आणि त्याच्या उरस्थळी जो हा शुद्ध व तेजस्वी आहे, तो ‘सामवेद’ नामधारी रुद्ररूपाने व्यवस्थित आहे. याचे स्मरण केल्यास तो सूर्याप्रमाणे पापांचा शीघ्र नाश करतो.
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It reflects a Purāṇic style of correlating Vedic categories (here, the Sāmaveda) with deity-forms (Rudra), illustrating how later Sanskrit compendia systematized earlier Vedic material into devotional-cosmological mappings.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on a doctrinal identification (Sāmaveda as Rudra-form) and its purificatory effect.
The verse presents remembrance (smaraṇa/smṛti) of a pure, radiant principle—here linked with Rudra and the Sāmaveda—as a means of rapid moral purification (pāpa-nāśa), framed as an ethical-spiritual discipline rather than coercive doctrine.
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