Varaha Purana 2.11: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 11
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
सृष्ट्वा नारास्ता अथो तत्र चाहं येन स्यान्मे नाम नारायणेतिः । कल्पे कल्पे तत्र संयामि भूयः सुप्तस्य मे नाभिजः स्याद्यथाद्यः ॥ २.११ ॥
sṛṣṭvā nārās tā atho tatra cāhaṁ yena syān me nāma nārāyaṇeti | kalpe kalpe tatra saṁyāmi bhūyaḥ suptasya me nābhijaḥ syād yathādyaḥ || 2.11 ||
‘నారాః’ అనగా జలములను సృష్టించి, నా నామము ‘నారాయణ’ అగుటకై నేను అక్కడే నివసించితిని. ప్రతి కల్పమున నేను అక్కడే మళ్లీ సంహారము/సంయమనము చేయుదును; యోగనిద్రలో శయనించుచున్న నా నాభి నుండి పద్మజుడు (బ్రహ్మ) ఆదివలె ఉద్భవించును।
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It preserves a widely attested Purāṇic/Vaiṣṇava cosmogonic motif: the deity identified as Nārāyaṇa associated with the primordial waters and cyclic creation-withdrawal across kalpas, alongside the image of the lotus-born Brahmā arising from the navel.
No specific geographic or pilgrimage location is named in this verse; the setting is cosmological (primordial waters and kalpa cycles) rather than terrestrial geography.
The verse primarily conveys a philosophical-cosmological principle—cyclic creation and reabsorption—rather than a direct ethical injunction; it frames existence as periodic and ordered, recurring ‘as at the beginning’.
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