Varaha Purana 203.6: Adhyaya 203, Shloka 6
Enumeration and Description of Classes of Sins and Their Consequences
कर्मक्षयाद्यदा भूयो मानुष्यं प्राप्नुवन्ति ते ॥ अल्पायुषो भवन्तीह व्याधिग्रस्ताश्च नित्यशः ॥
karmakṣayād yadā bhūyo mānuṣyaṃ prāpnuvanti te || alpāyuṣo bhavantīha vyādhigrastāś ca nityaśaḥ ||
When, through the exhaustion of their karma, they again attain human birth, they become short-lived here and are continually afflicted by disease.
Varāha (default, instructor voice)
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"instruction_summary":"Karmakṣaya leads to renewed human birth marked by alpa-āyus and vyādhi as karmavipāka; the verse states consequence rather than a prescriptive rule.","karmic_consequence":"Exhausted but still-binding karmic residues manifest as short lifespan and chronic disease in the next human embodiment."}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"karma-phala / saṃsāra-nirveda","core_concept":"Even ‘human birth again’ can be a painful maturation of karma; embodiment quality (āyus, ārogya) is karmically conditioned.","practical_application":"Cultivate dharma and sattva (ahiṃsā, śauca, dāna, vrata) and seek bhagavad-bhakti to reduce harmful karmic residues that ripen as disease and shortened life."}
Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Cosmology"]
Primary Rasa: karuṇa
Secondary Rasa: bhayānaka
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 203.7-203.11 (continuation of karmavipāka and untimely deaths)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"Varāha as a calm divine instructor describing the return to human birth where beings appear frail, short-lived, and disease-stricken—an ethical-cosmological tableau rather than a battle scene.","item_prompts":["Varāha seated in teaching posture","subdued assembly of suffering humans","visual motifs of illness (pale bodies, bandages)","scroll/palm-leaf of karma accounts","somber, muted palette"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: Varāha with ornate crown and jewelry, seated in upadeśa-mudrā; behind him a symbolic wheel of saṃsāra; foreground small vignettes of sickly humans; flat perspective, rich but restrained colors.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore: central Varāha in teaching pose with gold-leaf halo and prabhāmaṇḍala; embossed ornaments; small narrative panels below showing alpa-āyus and vyādhi; deep reds and greens.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore: delicate linework, soft shading; Varāha serene, didactic; minimal background with lotus seat; subtle vignettes of infirm humans to one side.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari: lyrical hills/sky backdrop; Varāha as teacher under a stylized canopy; small grouped figures representing afflicted births; cool blues and gentle ochres."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"grave, admonitory","suggested_raga":"Bhairavi","pace":"medium-slow","voice_tone":"steady, compassionate but warning"}
FAQs
It preserves a common Indic doctrinal motif: post-mortem punishment followed by rebirth shaped by residual karmic effects, here expressed as reduced lifespan and chronic illness.
No geographic site is named; the verse contrasts naraka with iha (“here,” the human world).
Actions have long-term consequences; harmful deeds are presented as leading to suffering both beyond and within human life.
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