Varaha Purana 173.7: Adhyaya 173, Shloka 7
Account of Gokarṇa’s Śuka-Satra, Temple Consecration, and the Resulting Merit
विशिष्टेन मया प्राप्तो राज्ञो लाभः सुपुष्कलः ॥ शुक पुत्रान्मया प्राप्तमिह लोके परत्र च
viśiṣṭena mayā prāpto rājño lābhaḥ supuṣkalaḥ || śuka putrān mayā prāptam iha loke paratra ca
विशिष्टेन मया प्राप्तो राज्ञो लाभः सुपुष्कलः। शुक, पुत्रैर्मया प्राप्तमिह लोके परत्र च॥
Varāha (narration; direct address to Śuka appears within quoted speech)
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It reflects a common Sanskrit ethical frame where material prosperity and family continuity are paired with longer-horizon aims, useful for studying household ideology in Purāṇic discourse.
No geographic location is mentioned in this verse.
The verse emphasizes gratitude for benefaction and presents prosperity and offspring as linked to both social stability and longer-term moral aspiration.
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