Varaha Purana 41.39: Adhyaya 41, Shloka 39
Rite of the Varāha Dvādaśī Vow and an Exemplary Narrative on Expiation for Brahmin-Slaying
अपुनर्मारके लोके दाहप्रलयवर्ज्जिते । अद्यापि तिष्ठते देवैः स्तूयमानो महानृपः । प्रसन्ने यज्ञपुरुषे किं चित्रं येन तद्भवेत् ॥ ४१.३९ ॥
apunarmārake loke dāhapralayavarjjite | adyāpi tiṣṭhate devaiḥ stūyamāno mahānṛpaḥ | prasanne yajñapuruṣe kiṃ citraṃ yena tad bhavet || 41.39 ||
अपुनर्मारके लोके दाहप्रलयवर्जिते। अद्यापि स महानृपः देवैः स्तूयमानः तिष्ठति। प्रसन्ने यज्ञपुरुषे किं चित्रं यत् तद्भवेत्॥
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It reflects a Purāṇic model of multiple realms and moral-cosmic causality, where exemplary rulers are portrayed as attaining enduring post-mortem states; it also preserves the technical vocabulary of pralaya (cosmic dissolution) and its exceptions.
No explicit geographic site is named in this verse; it describes a cosmological realm characterized as free from pralaya’s conflagration and from recurring death.
The verse frames outcomes as contingent on the favor of the Yajña-Puruṣa, implying that disciplined, merit-generating conduct (often associated with righteous kingship and ritual-ethical order) leads to stable, auspicious states of existence.
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