Varaha Purana 191.7: Adhyaya 191, Shloka 7
Section on the Origin of Madhuparka and the Procedure for Its Ritual Donation
Uttara Bhāga · Ritual-Etiology Narratives (Madhuparka) within Varāha–Pṛthivī Dialogue
अहं ब्रह्मा च रुद्रश्च कृत्वा लोकस्य संक्षयम् ॥ अव्यक्तानि च भूतानि यानि कानि च सर्वथा ॥
ahaṃ brahmā ca rudraś ca kṛtvā lokasya saṃkṣayam || avyaktāni ca bhūtāni yāni kāni ca sarvathā |
ahaM brahmA cha rudrashcha kRRitvA lokasya saMkShayam || avyaktAni cha bhUtAni yAni kAni cha sarvathA
నేను, బ్రహ్మ మరియు రుద్రుడు—లోకసంహారము (ప్రళయము) చేసి—ఏ విధమైనవైనా సమస్త భూతములను అవ్యక్త స్థితిలో (చూచితిమి).
Sandhi Notes
- रुद्रश्च = रुद्रः + च
Varāha
Absorbing, contemplative, awed by cosmic scale
What occurred at dissolution, and how were beings present in an unmanifest condition?
All differentiated beings can subside into an unmanifest condition; divine agency oversees cycles of dissolution and re-emergence.
Cultivate detachment and steadiness by contemplating impermanence of manifest forms and the deeper ground of being.
Varāha continues addressing Bhūmi, shifting to cosmological narration of pralaya as background for the ensuing emanation/etiology.
Pralaya narration frames Viṣṇu/Varāha as the transcendent ground in which manifest names-and-forms resolve into avyakta; the triad’s activity is subordinated to the sustaining Absolute.
The ‘unmanifest beings’ motif functions as the pre-yajña potentiality from which ordered rite/cosmos re-emerges.
Sāṅkhya-Vedānta vocabulary of avyakta (unmanifest prakṛti/seed state) and cyclic manifestation; hints of turīya-like ‘beyond the three’ later in 191.9.
Varāha Purāṇa 191.8-191.11 (emanation and naming of Madhuparka)
FAQs
It situates ritual explanation within a larger cosmological frame (creation/dissolution), a common Purāṇic strategy that links social practice to cosmic cycles.
None; the verse is cosmological rather than geographical.
Implicitly, it emphasizes cosmic order and the legitimacy of practices that are narrated as arising within that order, though no direct injunction is stated.
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