Varaha Purana 91.2: Adhyaya 91, Shloka 2

The Vaiṣṇavī Goddess on Mount Mandara: Emergence of the Maidens, Construction of the Goddess-City, and Nārada’s Visit

Devanagari script

चन्द्रप्रभा गिरिसुता तथा सूर्यप्रभामृता । स्वयम्प्रभा चारुमुखी शिवदूती विभावरी ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 91.2

Transliteration

candraprabhā girisutā tathā sūryaprabhāmṛtā | svayamprabhā cārumukhī śivadūtī vibhāvarī ||

Translation

Dia ialah Candraprabhā, yang bercahaya laksana bulan, puteri gunung (girisutā); juga Sūryaprabhā, bagaikan amerta; Svayamprabhā, yang bersinar dari diri-Nya; Cārumukhī, yang berwajah indah; Śivadūtī, utusan Śiva; dan Vibhāvarī, malam yang bercahaya.

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Word by Word

• candra-prabhā: Moon-radiant (one)
• candra-prabhā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: candra (प्रातिपदिक) + prabhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; tatpuruṣa: ‘candrasya prabhā’ / ‘moon-lustre’ (name/epithet)

• giri-sutā: daughter of the mountain
• giri-sutā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: giri (प्रातिपदिक) + sutā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; tatpuruṣa: ‘gireḥ sutā’

• tathā: also / likewise
• tathā: Sambandha (निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tathā (अव्यय)
• Form: Avyaya; conjunction/adverb (समुच्चय/उपमा) meaning ‘also/likewise’

• sūrya-prabhā-amṛtā: Sun-radiant, immortal (one)
• sūrya-prabhā-amṛtā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: sūrya (प्रातिपदिक) + prabhā (प्रातिपदिक) + amṛtā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; likely epithet/name; first part tatpuruṣa ‘sūrya-prabhā’ + qualifier amṛtā

• svayam-prabhā: self-luminous (one)
• svayam-prabhā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: svayam (अव्यय) + prabhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; avyayībhāva: ‘svayam prabhā’ (self-luminous)

• cāru-mukhī: beautiful-faced (one)
• cāru-mukhī: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: cāru (प्रातिपदिक) + mukhī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; karmadhāraya: ‘cāru mukhaṃ yasyāḥ’ (beautiful-faced)

• śiva-dūtī: messenger of Śiva
• śiva-dūtī: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śiva (प्रातिपदिक) + dūtī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana; tatpuruṣa: ‘śivasya dūtī’

• vibhāvarī: night / radiant one (name)
• vibhāvarī: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vibhāvarī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Strīliṅga, Prathamā, Ekavacana

Speaker

Varāha

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Onomastics
• Iconography

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It preserves a list-style onomastic tradition where multiple epithets encode functions, aesthetics, and cosmological symbolism used across Purāṇic hymnology.

Which geographic location is identified?

No explicit site is named here; ‘girisutā’ signals a mythic association with mountainous sacred geography rather than a single identifiable location.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

Primarily descriptive; it frames the Goddess through diverse attributes, encouraging a pluralistic understanding of symbolic language in classical texts.