Varaha Purana 3.19: Adhyaya 3, Shloka 19
Nārada’s Account of a Former Birth and a Hymn to Nārāyaṇa
ससर्ज यो वक्त्रत एव विप्रान् भुजान्तरे क्षत्रमथोरुयुग्मे । विशः पदाग्रेषु तथैव शूद्रान् नमामि तं विश्वतनुं पुराणम् ॥ ३.१९ ॥
sasarja yo vaktrata eva viprān bhujāntare kṣatram athoruyugme | viśaḥ padāgreṣu tathaiva śūdrān namāmi taṁ viśvatanuṁ purāṇam || 3.19 ||
Oddaję cześć temu starożytnemu, którego ciałem jest wszechświat, który powołał do istnienia brāhmaṇów z ust, kṣatrijów spośród ramion, vaiśjów z pary ud i podobnie śūdrów z przedniej części stóp.
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It preserves a widely attested Purāṇic/Vedic motif that maps social categories (varṇas) onto a cosmic body, reflecting how early Sanskrit traditions linked cosmology, ritual order, and social taxonomy in textual memory.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is cosmological and anthropogonic (origins of social categories) rather than sacred geography.
The verse functions primarily as a doxology (namāmi) and a cosmological classification statement; it does not present an explicit ethical injunction, but frames social roles as conceptually integrated within an ordered cosmic scheme.
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