Varaha Purana 21.19: Adhyaya 21, Shloka 19
The Disruption of Dakṣa’s Sacrifice, the Hari-Hara Conflict, and the Establishment of Rudra’s Sacrificial Share
रुद्रः कोपोद्भवो यस्तु पूर्वं मग्नो महाजले । स सहस्रार्कसंकाशो निष्चक्राम जलात् ततः ॥ २१.२० ॥
rudraḥ kopodbhavo yas tu pūrvaṁ magno mahājale | sa sahasrārkasaṅkāśo niścakrāma jalāt tataḥ || 21.20 ||
रुद्रः कोपोद्भवो यस्तु पूर्वं मग्नो महाजले। स सहस्रार्कसंकाशो निष्चक्राम जलात् ततः॥
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in excerpt)
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It preserves a Purāṇic narrative motif in which deities emerge from primordial waters, reflecting shared cosmological imagery across early Sanskrit traditions and later Purāṇic redactions.
No specific terrestrial location is named; the setting is mythic-cosmological (“mahājala”, the great waters), a common Purāṇic cosmological environment rather than a mapped pilgrimage site.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical emphasis is on transformation and emergence—depicting potent energy (kopa) as a causal force within cosmic narrative rather than issuing a direct moral injunction.
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