Varaha Purana 35.4: Adhyaya 35, Shloka 4
The Account of Soma’s Decline and Restoration, and the Paurṇamāsī Observance
दक्षोऽप्यसकृदागत्य तमुवाच स नाकरॊत् । समतां सोऽपि तं दक्षः शशापान्तरहितो भव ॥ ३५.४ ॥
dakṣo 'py asakṛd āgatya tam uvāca sa nākarot | samatāṃ so 'pi taṃ dakṣaḥ śaśāpāntarhito bhava || 35.4 ||
Дакша тоже многократно приходил и увещевал его, но тот не послушался. Тогда Дакша проклял его: «Стань сокрытым (исчезни из виду)».
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in fragment)
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It illustrates a common Purāṇic narrative device: social or ritual tension expressed through speech-acts (especially curses), reflecting how authority, compliance, and consequence are framed in classical Sanskrit storytelling.
No geographic location is named in this verse fragment; the content focuses on an interpersonal episode involving Dakṣa and an unnamed ‘him’ (tam).
The verse highlights consequences arising from non-compliance and conflict escalation, presenting the curse as a narrative mechanism that links interpersonal conduct to tangible outcomes (here, becoming ‘hidden’).
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