Varaha Purana 201.39: Adhyaya 201, Shloka 39
The Battle between the Rākṣasas and Yama’s Attendant-Messengers
विविधान्सन्दिदेशात्र पुरुषानग्निवर्चसः ॥ बद्धाञ्जलिपुटान्सर्वानिदमाह सुरेश्वरः ॥
vividhān sandideśātra puruṣān agnivarcasaḥ || baddhāñjalipuṭān sarvān idam āha sureśvaraḥ ||
అక్కడ అతడు అగ్నివర్ణ తేజస్సుతో ప్రకాశించే వివిధ పురుషులను పంపించాడు. అంజలి బద్ధంగా నిలిచిన వారందరితో దేవేశ్వరుడు ఇలా అన్నాడు।
Narrator (speech to follow by sureśvara, likely Jvara in this episode)
FAQs
It reflects social and literary conventions of command: emissaries/agents receive orders while displaying the añjali gesture, a marker of hierarchy and formal speech settings.
No geographic location is identified.
Implicitly, it models disciplined reception of instruction within a hierarchical order, but it is not framed as a universal ethical rule.
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