Varaha Purana 96.39: Adhyaya 96, Shloka 39

The Threefold Power: The Raudrī Observance and the Manifestation of Chāmuṇḍā

Devanagari script

तया तु ताडितस्यास्य दैत्यस्य शुभलोचने ॥ चर्ममुण्डे उभे सम्यक् पृथग्भूते बभूवतुः ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 96.39

Transliteration

tayā tu tāḍitasyāsya daityasya śubhalocane || carmamuṇḍe ubhe samyak pṛthagbhūte babhūvatuḥ ||

Translation

Gdy ten demon został przez nią uderzony, o pięknooka, jego skóra i jego głowa zostały czysto od siebie oddzielone.

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Word by Word

• tayā: by her/by that
• tayā: Karaṇa (करण)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine (स्त्रीलिङ्ग), Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया), Singular (एकवचन)

• tu: indeed
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: Particle (निपात)

• tāḍitasya: of the struck (one)
• tāḍitasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tāḍita (कृदन्त, past participle)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन); कृदन्त: √tāḍ (ताड्) क्त

• asya: of this (one), his
• asya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: idam (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine/Neuter (पुं/नपुंसक), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन)

• daityasya: of the demon
• daityasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: daitya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन)

• śubha-locane: O fair-eyed one
• śubha-locane: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: śubha (प्रातिपदिक) + locana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Vocative (8th/सम्बोधन), Dual (द्विवचन); used as address; कर्मधारय: śubhe locane = O fair-eyed (two eyes)

• carma-muṇḍe: skin and head (shaven head/skull)
• carma-muṇḍe: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: carma (प्रातिपदिक) + muṇḍa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Dual (द्विवचन); द्वन्द्व: carma ca muṇḍaṃ ca

• ubhe: both
• ubhe: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: ubhā (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Dual (द्विवचन); agrees with carma-muṇḍe

• samyak: properly, completely
• samyak: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samyak (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (क्रियाविशेषण)

• pṛthak-bhūte: having become separate
• pṛthak-bhūte: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: pṛthak (अव्यय) + bhūta (कृदन्त)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Dual (द्विवचन); कृदन्त: √bhū (भू) क्त; अव्ययीभाव: pṛthak-bhūta = become separate

• babhūvatuḥ: became (the two became)
• babhūvatuḥ: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (धातु)
• Form: Perfect (लिट्), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), 3rd Person (प्रथमपुरुष), Dual (द्विवचन)

Speaker

Varāha (default, speaker not explicit in excerpt)

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Studies
• Narratology

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

Such graphic battle description is characteristic of Purāṇic and epic narration, serving as a rhetorical marker of decisive victory and the collapse of hostile power.

Which geographic location is identified?

None is specified in this fragment.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The verse functions narratively rather than prescriptively; its implicit theme is the inevitability of defeat when opposed by superior agency.