Varaha Purana 3.14: Adhyaya 3, Shloka 14
Nārada’s Account of a Former Birth and a Hymn to Nārāyaṇa
पुरा पुरं शून्यमिदं ससर्ज्ज तदा स्थितत्वात् पुरुषः प्रधानः । जने प्रसिद्धः शरणं ममास्तु नारायणो वीतमलः पुराणः ॥ ३.१४ ॥
purā puraṃ śūnyam idaṃ sasarjja tadā sthitatvāt puruṣaḥ pradhānaḥ | jane prasiddhaḥ śaraṇaṃ mamāstu nārāyaṇo vītamalaḥ purāṇaḥ || 3.14 ||
W dawnych czasach stworzył on to miasto-świat, które było jakby puste; wtedy, dzięki swojej trwałej stałości, Puruṣa, który jest Pradhāną, stał się jego podporą. Niech ten Nārāyaṇa, znany wśród ludzi, pradawny i wolny od skazy, będzie moją ucieczką.
Varāha (default attribution; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It functions as an invocatory and cosmological statement typical of Purāṇic composition, linking creation language with a doxological conclusion (seeking refuge in Nārāyaṇa), reflecting the text’s broader Vaiṣṇava literary milieu.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the imagery is cosmological (“this world/city”), not topographical.
The verse’s philosophical instruction emphasizes seeking refuge in an idealized principle of purity and antiquity (Nārāyaṇa) and framing cosmological origins within a disciplined, steady foundational order (sthitatva).
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