Varaha Purana 1.2: Adhyaya 1, Shloka 2
Praise of Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Foundational Questions
यः संसारार्णवे नौरिव मरणजराव्याधिनक्रोर्मिभीमे भक्तानां भीतिहर्ता मुरनरकदशास्यान्तकृत्कोलरूपी। विष्णुः सर्वेश्वरोऽयं यमिह कृतधियो लीलया प्राप्नुवन्ति मुक्तात्मानो न पापं भवत्तु नुदितारातिपक्षः क्षितीशः ॥ १.३ ॥
yaḥ saṁsārārṇave naur iva maraṇajarāvyādhi-nakror mi-bhīme bhaktānāṁ bhītihartā muranaraka-daśāsyāntakṛt kola-rūpī | viṣṇuḥ sarveśvaro ’yaṁ yam iha kṛtadhiyo līlayā prāpnuvanti muktātmāno na pāpaṁ bhavattu nuditārāti-pakṣaḥ kṣitīśaḥ || 1.3 ||
यः संसारार्णवे नौरिव मरणजराव्याधिनक्रोर्मिभीमे भक्तानां भीतिं हरति, कोलरूपी मुरनरकदशास्यान्तकृत्। स विष्णुः सर्वेश्वरो यं कृतधियो लीलया प्राप्नुवन्ति मुक्तात्मानः। स क्षितीशो नुदितारातिपक्षः शुभं करोतु, न पापं भवतु॥
Varāha (default, opening stuti context; explicit speaker not stated in the fragment)
FAQs
It functions as an invocatory benediction (maṅgalācaraṇa) typical of Purāṇic composition, framing Viṣṇu/Varāha as a salvific figure who enables liberation and removes existential fear.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; it uses cosmological-metaphorical imagery (the 'ocean of saṁsāra') rather than a locatable pilgrimage geography.
The verse foregrounds a philosophical orientation toward steadiness of understanding (kṛtadhiyo) and the alleviation of fear through disciplined insight and the liberative ideal (mukti), presented in a devotional-literary register.
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