Varaha Purana 3.18: Adhyaya 3, Shloka 18
Nārada’s Account of a Former Birth and a Hymn to Nārāyaṇa
कृते शितं रक्ततनुं तथा च त्रेतायुगॆ पूततनुं पुराणम् । तथा हरिं द्वापरतः कलौ च कृष्णीकृतात्मानमथो नमामि ॥ ३.१८ ॥
kṛte śitaṁ raktatanuṁ tathā ca tretāyuge pūtatanuṁ purāṇam | tathā hariṁ dvāparataḥ kalau ca kṛṣṇīkṛtātmānam atho namāmi || 3.18 ||
कृतयुगे शितं रक्ततनुं, त्रेतायुगॆ पूततनुं पुराणं, द्वापरे तथा, कलौ च कृष्णीकृतात्मानं हरिं नमामि॥
Varāha (default attribution within Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It reflects a Purāṇic convention of correlating cosmic time (the four yugas) with changing descriptions of the divine, a motif also used in broader Sanskrit literature to frame ethical and cultural change across eras.
No geographic location is named in this verse; it is primarily a cosmological and iconographic statement about yuga-based characterization.
The verse’s philosophical instruction is reverential orientation toward a stable cosmic principle (Hari/Viṣṇu) across changing ages, emphasizing continuity of dharmic focus amid historical transformation.
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