Varaha Purana 201.6: Adhyaya 201, Shloka 6
The Battle between the Rākṣasas and Yama’s Attendant-Messengers
निःसृतः स च रोषेण चित्रगुप्तेन धीमता ॥ ततः स त्वरितं गत्वा मन्देहा नाम राक्षसाः ॥
niḥsṛtaḥ sa ca roṣeṇa citraguptena dhīmatā || tataḥ sa tvaritaṃ gatvā mandehā nāma rākṣasāḥ ||
ధీమంతుడైన చిత్రగుప్తుని కోపంతో అతడు వెలివేయబడ్డాడు. ఆపై త్వరగా వెళ్లి ‘మందేహ’ అనే రాక్షసుల వద్దకు చేరాడు.
Varāha (default speaker framework; not explicit in fragment)
FAQs
Citragupta appears as an administrative-judicial figure in later Sanskrit traditions; this verse participates in that cultural memory of moral accounting and enforcement.
No explicit place-name is given; “Mandeha” here functions as a group name rather than a mapped location.
Accountability is implied through the figure of Citragupta, whose anger and action suggest consequences for wrongdoing within a moral-legal cosmic order.
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