Varaha Purana 22.30: Adhyaya 22, Shloka 30
Gaurī’s Rebirth, Umā’s Austerities, Rudra’s Test, and the Himalayan Wedding
तत्रासौ वृद्धकायेन द्विजरूपेण शङ्करः । मकरेण धृतस्तूर्णं अब्रह्महण्यमुवाच ह ॥ २२.३० ॥
tatrāsau vṛddhakāyena dvijarūpeṇa śaṅkaraḥ | makareṇa dhṛtas tūrṇaṃ abrahahmaṇyam uvāca ha || 22.30 ||
Tam Śankara, przyjąwszy ciało starca i postać bramina, został szybko pochwyciony przez makarę; wtedy zwrócił się do Abrahmahani.
Varāha (default framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)
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It preserves a common Purāṇic narrative device—divine figures adopting human disguises (here, an aged brahmin form)—useful for studying intertextual motifs across Purāṇas and related Sanskrit narrative literature.
No explicit geographic toponym appears in this verse; the scene is indicated only by “tatra” (“there”), requiring surrounding verses for location identification.
The verse is primarily narrative rather than prescriptive; implicitly it highlights themes of appearance versus identity and the sudden vulnerability of embodied forms within mythic storytelling.
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