Varaha Purana 22.32: Adhyaya 22, Shloka 32
Gaurī’s Rebirth, Umā’s Austerities, Rudra’s Test, and the Himalayan Wedding
ततो मामब्रवीद् देवः पाणिग्रहणमागताम् । भवती देवि मा किञ्चिद् विचारय तपोधने ॥ २२.३२ ॥
tato mām abravīd devaḥ pāṇigrahaṇam āgatām | bhavatī devi mā kiñcid vicāraya tapodhane || 22.32 ||
Wtedy bóg zwrócił się do mnie, która przybyła na obrzęd ujęcia ręki w małżeństwie: o bogini, o skarbie zasługi ascezy, nie rozważaj niczego.
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; speaker not explicitly named in excerpt)
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It preserves a classical Sanskrit narrative register in which pāṇigrahaṇa (“hand-taking”) functions as a technical term for marriage, reflecting social-ritual vocabulary common across Purāṇic and Dharmaśāstra-adjacent literature.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; it is primarily a dialogue line associated with a ritual-social situation rather than a tīrtha or place description.
The line conveys an instruction to refrain from hesitation or over-deliberation at a decisive moment, framed through respectful address and the idiom of authoritative counsel in dialogue.
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