Varaha Purana 48.3: Adhyaya 48, Shloka 3
The Kalki Dvādaśī Observance and the Episode of King Viśāla
शितिकण्ठाय कण्ठं तु खड्गपाणेति वै भुजौ । चतुर्भुजायेति हस्तौ विश्वमूर्त्ते तथा शिरः ॥ ४८.३ ॥
śitikaṇṭhāya kaṇṭhaṃ tu khaḍgapāṇeti vai bhujau | caturbhujāyeti hastau viśvamūrte tathā śiraḥ || 48.3 ||
कंठ ‘शितिकंठा’स अर्पावा; भुजा ‘खड्गपाणी’स; हस्त ‘चतुर्भुजा’स; तसेच शिर ‘विश्वमूर्ती’स असे भावावे।
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It preserves a concise specimen of Purāṇic iconographic language, where divine epithets are systematically associated with bodily features—useful for studying the history of ritual description, visual theology, and Sanskrit epithet formation.
No geographic location is named in this verse-fragment; the content is primarily iconographic and lexical rather than topographical.
The verse does not foreground an ethical injunction; its primary function is descriptive—cataloguing epithets and their association with specific body-parts within a ritual/interpretive framework.
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