Varaha Purana 197.7 — Adhyaya 197, Shloka 7
The Division of the Gates of Yama’s City and the Description of the Tribunal Hall
प्रवेशो हि ततस्तेन विहितो रविसूनुना ॥ पापिष्ठानां नृशंसानां क्रव्यादानां दुरात्मनाम् ॥
praveśo hi tatas tena vihito ravi-sūnunā || pāpiṣṭhānāṃ nṛśaṃsānāṃ kravyādānāṃ durātmanām ||
ఆ మార్గమున ప్రవేశము రవిసుతుడు (యముడు) అత్యంత పాపులైన—నిర్దయులు, మాంసభక్షకులు, దురాత్ములు—వారికే నియమించాడు.
Ṛṣiputra (continuation; explicit in 197.1)
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"observer","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":true,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"Yama (son of the Sun) assigns specific routes of entry for specific moral classes—especially the most sinful, cruel, and violent.","karmic_consequence":"Cruelty, depravity, and flesh-eating/violent predation lead to being directed through the designated punitive gate and into harsher hell-experiences."}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"ethical causality","core_concept":"Actions and dispositions (cruelty, nṛśaṃsatā, dūratmatā) determine one’s post-mortem trajectory under cosmic governance.","practical_application":"Cultivate ahiṃsā, compassion, and purity of mind; avoid predatory livelihood and deliberate harm."}
Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Cosmology"]
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: bibhatsa
Type: judicial route / karmic passage
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa naraka classification passages contiguous with 197.7 (routes for sinners)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A stern, law-giving presence of Vaivasvata’s authority implied as a marked route leading toward a dreadful gate, with silhouettes of condemned cruel beings.","item_prompts":["path/route signified by direction","shadowy figures of sinners","judicial insignia of Yama (noose implied)","threshold leading into fire-lit darkness"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural: symbolic Yama-authority motif (dark figure with pāśa suggested), a procession toward a fiery gate, strong reds/ochres, emphatic moral drama.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore: ornate but severe composition—golden border, dark route leading to a blazing gate, embossed pāśa motif, minimal figures with stark expressions.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore: elegant linework showing a regulated ‘route’ with attendants guiding sinners, subdued but intense palette, emphasis on order and inevitability.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari: narrative procession scene on a winding path, expressive faces, stylized flames at the destination, moral storytelling clarity."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"judicial, admonitory","suggested_raga":"Darbari Kanada","pace":"measured","voice_tone":"authoritative, low"}
FAQs
It provides an example of Purāṇic moral categorization tied to controlled movement through spaces, with an attributive agent (ravi-sūnu) overseeing allocation.
No geographic place-name is supplied; the verse concerns a prescribed route/entry for specific moral categories.
Cruelty and moral degradation are portrayed as leading to constrained, ominous pathways—an ethical consequence model expressed through spatial imagery.
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