Varaha Purana 45.9 — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 9
Ritual Procedure for Worship of Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa in the Month of Jyeṣṭha
तावद् भोगान् भुञ्जते स्वर्गसंस्थो यावदिन्द्राः दश च द्विद्विसंख्याः । अतीतकाले पुनरेत्य मर्त्यो भवेत राजा शतयज्ञयाजी । नश्यन्ति पापानि च तस्य पुंसः प्राप्नोति निर्वाणमलं च शाश्वतम् ॥ ४५.९ ॥
tāvad bhogān bhuñjate svargasaṃstho yāvad indrā daśa ca dvidvisaṃkhyāḥ | atītakāle punaretya martyo bhaveta rājā śatayajñayājī | naśyanti pāpāni ca tasya puṃsaḥ prāpnoti nirvāṇam alaṃ ca śāśvatam || 45.9 ||
तावत्कालं स्वर्गे स्थितो भोगान् भुङ्क्ते यावद् दशेन्द्राणां द्विगुणसंख्यायाश्च कालः। स कालेऽतीते पुनर्मर्त्यलोके प्रत्यागत्य शतयज्ञयाजी राजा भवति। तस्य पापानि नश्यन्ति, स च शाश्वतं निर्मलं निर्वाणं प्राप्नोति॥
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicitly marked in the excerpt)
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Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false}
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Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Karma and Merit","Cosmology","Soteriology (Liberation discourse)"]
Primary Rasa: śānta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
Type: cosmic realms
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa: adjacent discourse on merit (puṇya), loka-phala, and mokṣa-phalāni (contextual continuity within the same adhyāya)
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FAQs
It reflects Purāṇic synthesis of karmic reward (svarga enjoyment), royal-sacrificial ideology (śatayajña), and liberation language (nirvāṇa), illustrating how later Sanskrit traditions link ritual merit with broader soteriological goals.
No specific geographic site is named in this verse; the focus is temporal-cosmological (duration in heaven and cycles of Indras) rather than topographical sacred geography.
The verse emphasizes the impermanence of heavenly pleasures and frames ethical-ritual action as capable of purifying wrongdoing, culminating in an ideal of enduring liberation described as “stainless nirvāṇa.”
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