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Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
श्रद्धासि त्वं च देवेश दोषहन्तासि माधव ॥ अण्डजोद्भिज्जस्वेदानां जरायूनां च माधव ॥
śraddhāsi tvaṃ ca deveśa doṣahantāsi mādhava || aṇḍajodbhijjasvedānāṃ jarāyūnāṃ ca mādhava ||
Ты — вера (шраддха), о Владыка богов; Ты — уничтожитель пороков, о Мадхава. Ты также поддерживаешь существ, рождённых из яйца, из ростка, из пота и из чрева, о Мадхава.
Pṛthivī (inferred continuation of direct address)
It preserves a classical Indian taxonomy of living beings by modes of birth, important for the history of ideas in cosmology, biology-adjacent classification, and Purāṇic worldviews.
No geographic location is mentioned; the reference is to categories of living beings across the world.
The verse frames the divine as the ground of trust and moral purification (removal of faults), encouraging ethical self-correction alongside a cosmological view of life’s diversity.
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