Varaha Purana 113.16: Adhyaya 113, Shloka 16
Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
धरण्युवाच ॥ शृण्वन्तु ऋषयः सर्वे यत्तद्विष्णुमुखाच्छ्रुतम् ॥ बाढमित्येव तां देवी स्वस्ति ब्रूहीति सोऽब्रवीत्
dharaṇy uvāca || śṛṇvantu ṛṣayaḥ sarve yat tad viṣṇu-mukhāc chrutam || bāḍham ity eva tāṃ devī svasti brūhīti so 'bravīt
धरण्युवाच—शृण्वन्तु सर्वे ऋषयः यदिदं विष्णोर्मुखात् श्रुतम्। ते ‘बाढम्’ इत्युक्त्वा स देवीं प्रति—‘स्वस्ति ब्रूहि’ इत्यब्रवीत्।
Dharaṇī (Pṛthivī/Earth); additional voices: sages/unspecified male speaker in closing phrase
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It highlights an oral-authentication motif—‘heard from Viṣṇu’s mouth’—and shows communal reception (‘bāḍham’) typical of Purāṇic performance contexts.
No geographic place-name is present in this verse.
Attentive listening to transmitted teaching and beginning discourse with auspicious speech (svasti) as a cultural-discursive norm.
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