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Varaha Purana 39.41: Adhyaya 39, Shloka 41

Discrimination of the Three Bodies and the Dharaṇī Vow: A Manual for Dvādaśī Observance

त्रैलोक्यविजयायेति बाहू सर्वात्मने शिरः । रथाङ्गधारिणे चक्रं शंकरायेति वारिजम् ॥ ३९.४१ ॥

Sanskrit recitationVaraha Purana 39.41

trailokyavijayāyeti bāhū sarvātmane śiraḥ | rathāṅgadhāriṇe cakraṃ śaṅkarāyeti vārijam || 39.41 ||

‘త్రైలోక్యవిజయాయ’ అని భుజాలను అర్పించాలి; ‘సర్వాత్మనే’ అని శిరస్సును. ‘రథాంగధారిణే’ అని చక్రాన్ని, మరియు ‘శంకరాయ’ అని వారిజం (పద్మం) అర్పించాలి.

त्रैलोक्यविजयायto (the one called) ‘conqueror of the three worlds’
त्रैलोक्यविजयाय:
सम्प्रदान (सम्प्रदान/Recipient)
TypeNoun
Rootत्रैलोक्य-विजय (प्रातिपदिक; त्रि+लोक्य + विजय)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/चतुर्थी), एकवचन; समासः—षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (त्रैलोक्यस्य विजयः)
इतिthus / saying
इति:
सम्बन्ध (सम्बन्ध/Quotation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइति (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; इति-शब्दः (quotative particle)
बाहू(the two) arms
बाहू:
कर्म (कर्म/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootबाहु (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), द्विवचन
सर्वात्मनेto the ‘all-souled’ / to the universal Self
सर्वात्मने:
सम्प्रदान (सम्प्रदान/Recipient)
TypeNoun
Rootसर्व-आत्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/चतुर्थी), एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारयः (सर्वः आत्मा यस्य/सर्वात्मा)
शिरःhead
शिरः:
कर्म (कर्म/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootशिरस् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन
रथाङ्गधारिणेto the bearer of the discus (rathāṅga)
रथाङ्गधारिणे:
सम्प्रदान (सम्प्रदान/Recipient)
TypeNoun
Rootरथ-अङ्ग-धारिन् (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/चतुर्थी), एकवचन; समासः—तत्पुरुषः (रथाङ्गं धारयति इति)
चक्रम्discus / wheel-weapon
चक्रम्:
कर्म (कर्म/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootचक्र (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन
शंकरायto Śaṅkara
शंकराय:
सम्प्रदान (सम्प्रदान/Recipient)
TypeNoun
Rootशंकर (प्रातिपदिक)
Formपुंलिङ्ग, चतुर्थी (4th/चतुर्थी), एकवचन
इतिthus / saying
इति:
सम्बन्ध (सम्बन्ध/Quotation marker)
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइति (अव्यय)
Formअव्यय; इति-शब्दः (quotative particle)
वारिजम्lotus
वारिजम्:
कर्म (कर्म/Object)
TypeNoun
Rootवारिज (प्रातिपदिक)
Formनपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/द्वितीया), एकवचन

Varāha (default dialogue framework; speaker not explicit in fragment)

C
Classical Literature
P
Purāṇic Studies
V
Vaiṣṇavism
S
Sanskrit Philology

FAQs

It preserves a stotra-like sequence of offering-formulas that reflect Purāṇic devotional and iconographic vocabulary, useful for tracing how epithets and emblem-offerings were standardized in medieval Sanskrit religious literature.

No geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on epithets and symbolic offerings (arms, head, discus, lotus).

The verse primarily conveys a disciplined ritual-philosophical posture of dedicating one’s faculties and symbolic objects through formalized epithets, emphasizing ordered self-offering rather than a direct moral injunction.

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