Varaha Purana 97.35: Adhyaya 97, Shloka 35

The Glory of Rudra: The Origin of the Kapālamocana Pilgrimage Site and Rudra’s Expiatory Vow

Devanagari script

यच्च ते बभ्रुता जाता हिमवत्यचलोत्तमे ॥ भ्रमतोस्तद्व्रतं देव बाब्रव्यं तद्भविष्यति

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 97.35

Transliteration

yacca te babhrutā jātā himavaty acalottame || bhramatas tad vrataṃ deva bābhravyaṃ tad bhaviṣyati

Translation

హే దేవా! హిమవత్ అనే శ్రేష్ఠ పర్వతంలో నీవు సంచరిస్తుండగా నీకు కలిగిన బభ్రుతా (తామ్రవర్ణ) స్థితి, అదే ‘బాబ్రవ్య’ అనే వ్రతముగా అవతరిస్తుంది.

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Word by Word

• yat: and which/that which
• yat: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Relative pronoun; Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular; with enclitic ca

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: Conjunction (समुच्चयबोधक)

• te: of you
• te: Sambandha (षष्ठी)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Pronoun; Genitive (6th/षष्ठी) or Dative (4th/चतुर्थी), Singular; here best as Genitive ‘of you’

• babhrutā: the ‘babhru’ state/condition
• babhrutā: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: babhru (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative (1st/प्रथमा), Singular; abstract/collective sense ‘babhru-ness’/‘brownish state’ (reading uncertain)

• jātā: arisen/produced
• jātā: Karta-anvaya (कर्तृ-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: jan (धातु) → jāta (कृदन्त)
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), Feminine, Nominative, Singular; agrees with babhrutā

• himavati: in Himavat
• himavati: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: himavat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular; ‘in Himavat (Himalaya)’

• acala-uttame: on the best of mountains
• acala-uttame: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: acala + uttama (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular; तत्पुरुष: अचलानां उत्तमः

• bhramataḥ: of the two wandering / while (they) wander
• bhramataḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhram (धातु)
• Form: Present participle (शतृ/परस्मैपद), Genitive (6th) / Ablative (5th) Dual; here Genitive Dual ‘of the two who wander’ (or ‘while wandering’)

• tat: that
• tat: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular; correlative to yat

• vratam: vow/observance
• vratam: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vrata (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• deva: O god
• deva: Sambodhana (सम्बोधन)
• Type: Noun
• Root: deva (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• bābhravyam: (called) Bābhravya
• bābhravyam: Karta-anvaya (कर्तृ-विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: bābhravya (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular; predicate adjective to ‘vratam’

• tat: that
• tat: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• bhaviṣyati: will be/will become
• bhaviṣyati: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: bhū (धातु)
• Form: Luṭ-lakāra (लुट्), Prathama-puruṣa, Singular

Speaker

Brahmā

Tags

• Himavat Toponymy
• Vrata Naming
• Ascetic Itinerancy
• Purāṇic Etiology

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It links a named observance to a remembered episode and to Himavat, illustrating how Purāṇic literature maps practices onto iconic landscapes to stabilize cultural memory.

Which geographic location is identified?

Himavat (the Himalaya) is explicitly named, characterized as ‘the best of mountains’ (acalottama).

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The verse emphasizes that even arduous wandering and bodily transformation are framed within disciplined observance, turning experience into a regulated practice.