Varaha Purana 67.6: Adhyaya 67, Shloka 6
On the Two ‘Sita-Kṛṣṇā’ Figures, the Sevenfold Ocean, and the Twelvefold Year
योऽसौ द्वादशधा राजन् द्विदेहः षट्शिराः प्रभुः । संवत्सरः स विज्ञेयः शरीरे द्वे गती स्मृते । ऋतवः षट् च वक्त्राणि एष संवत्सरः स्मृतः ॥ ६७.६ ॥
yo 'sau dvādaśadhā rājan dvidehaḥ ṣaṭ-śirāḥ prabhuḥ | saṃvatsaraḥ sa vijñeyaḥ śarīre dve gatī smṛte | ṛtavaḥ ṣaṭ ca vaktrāṇi eṣa saṃvatsaraḥ smṛtaḥ || 67.6 ||
Ó Rei, esse princípio soberano, doze vezes manifestado, de dois corpos e seis cabeças, deve ser entendido como o “ano” (saṃvatsara). Em seu corpo lembram-se dois cursos; e as seis estações são ditas seus seis rostos—assim é o ano descrito.
Varāha (default attribution within Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework; addressee: “rājan” indicates a royal interlocutor in this passage)
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It preserves a Purāṇic model of calendrical thought in which the year (saṃvatsara) is expressed through embodied symbolism (twelvefold structure and six seasonal ‘faces’), reflecting early Indian attempts to align ritual, astronomy, and cosmology.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the focus is conceptual (the structure of time as the year and its seasonal divisions).
The verse primarily offers a philosophical instruction rather than a direct moral command: it encourages disciplined understanding of time (kāla) as an ordered system, linking human life and seasonal cycles through a coherent cosmological framework.
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