Varaha Purana 113.36: Adhyaya 113, Shloka 36
Hymn to Varāha and Pṛthivī’s Inquiry
Prelude to the Sanatkumāra Dialogue
स त्वां तारयितुं शक्तो मग्नासि यदि सागरे ।। प्रसीद मम देवेश लोकनाथ जगत्प्रभो
sa tvāṃ tārayituṃ śakto magnāsi yadi sāgare || prasīda mama deveśa lokanātha jagatprabho
स त्वां तारयितुं शक्तो मग्नासि यदि सागरे । प्रसीद मम देवेश लोकनाथ जगत्प्रभो ॥
Dharaṇī (Pṛthivī)
FAQs
The ‘Earth sunk in the ocean’ motif is central to the Varāha cycle and helps trace the diffusion of the Earth-rescue narrative across Purāṇic and iconographic traditions.
The ‘ocean’ (sāgara) is a cosmological element rather than a specific sea identifiable in modern geography within this fragment.
It frames crisis response as supplication coupled with recognition of competence: turning to the agent capable of restoring balance when collapse is imminent.
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