Varaha Purana 148.44: Adhyaya 148, Shloka 44

The Greatness of Stutasvāmi: Varāha’s Disclosure of the Bhūtagiri Sacred Landscape and Its Ethical Discipline

Devanagari script

अथात्र मुञ्चते प्राणान्कृतकृत्यो भवेन नरः ॥ नन्दनं वनमुत्सृज्य मम लोकं च गच्छति ॥

Sanskrit recitationVaraha Purana 148.44

Transliteration

athātra muñcate prāṇān kṛtakṛtyo bhaven naraḥ || nandanaṁ vanam utsṛjya mama lokaṁ ca gacchati

Translation

अथात्र मुञ्चते प्राणान् कृतकृत्यो भवेन नरः। नन्दनं वनम् उत्सृज्य मम लोकं च गच्छति॥

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Word by Word

• atha: then
• atha: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atha (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb/particle (निपात), sequence ‘then/now’

• atra: here
• atra: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: atra (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (देशवाचक अव्यय)

• muñcate: releases/gives up
• muñcate: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: muc (धातु)
• Form: Laṭ-lakāra (लट्/Present), Ātmanepada (आत्मनेपद), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन)

• prāṇān: life-breaths
• prāṇān: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: prāṇa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Plural (बहुवचन)

• kṛtakṛtyaḥ: one who has fulfilled his duty
• kṛtakṛtyaḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṛta + kṛtya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन); Karmadhāraya (कर्मधारय) ‘kṛtaṃ kṛtyaṃ yena’ (one whose duty is done)

• bhavet: would be/should become
• bhavet: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (धातु)
• Form: Vidhi-liṅ (विधिलिङ्/Optative), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन)

• naraḥ: a man
• naraḥ: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular (एकवचन)

• nandanam: Nandana (garden)
• nandanam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: nandana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन)

• vanam: forest/grove
• vanam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vana (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन); apposition to ‘nandanam’

• utsṛjya: having left
• utsṛjya: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: ud + sṛj (धातु)
• Form: Absolutive/Gerund (ल्यप्), ‘having left/abandoned’

• mama: my
• mama: Sambandha (षष्ठी-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Sarvanāma (सर्वनाम), Genitive (6th/षष्ठी), Singular (एकवचन)

• lokam: world/realm
• lokam: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: loka (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine (पुंलिङ्ग), Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular (एकवचन)

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Conjunction (समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय)

• gacchati: goes
• gacchati: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: gam (धातु)
• Form: Laṭ-lakāra (लट्/Present), Parasmaipada (परस्मैपद), 3rd person (प्रथमपुरुष), Singular (एकवचन)

Speaker

Varāha (default instructor voice)

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Cosmology
• Pilgrimage Culture
• Soteriology

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It reflects a widespread Purāṇic tīrtha belief: dying at or in connection with a sacred site/rite is framed as ‘kṛtakṛtya’ and linked to post-mortem relocation within a mapped cosmology.

Which geographic location is identified?

The immediate earthly locus is implied from the preceding Pañcāruma/kṣetra context; Nandana and ‘mama loka’ function as cosmological destinations rather than terrestrial coordinates.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

Complete prescribed observances with discipline so that one’s life is characterized as ‘kṛtakṛtya’ (purpose-fulfilled) within the text’s moral-cosmological framework.