Varaha Purana 122.87: Adhyaya 122, Shloka 87

The Greatness of Kokāmukha

Sacred Site Eulogy and Salvific Narrative

Devanagari script

तं तमेव करिष्यामि विष्णुलोके सुखावहम् ॥ ततस्तस्या वचः श्रुत्वा लब्धपूर्वस्मृतिर्नृपः ॥

Sanskrit recitationVaraha Purana 122.87

Transliteration

taṁ tam eva kariṣyāmi viṣṇuloke sukhāvaham || tatas tasyā vacaḥ śrutvā labdhapūrvasmṛtir nṛpaḥ ||

Translation

—ธรรมนั้นนั่นเอง ข้าจักปฏิบัติให้เป็นจริง อันนำสุขในโลกของพระวิษณุ ครั้นได้ฟังถ้อยคำของนางแล้ว พระราชาก็ได้ความทรงจำเดิมกลับคืนมา

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Word by Word

• तम्: that
• तम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; demonstrative pronoun

• तम्: that very
• तम्: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; repetition for emphasis

• एव: indeed/only
• एव: Sambandha-bodhaka (सम्बन्धबोधक)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; emphatic particle

• करिष्यामि: I will do
• करिष्यामि: Kriyā (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √कृ (धातु)
• Form: लृट् (Simple Future), परस्मैपद, उत्तमपुरुष, एकवचन

• विष्णु-लोके: in Viṣṇu’s world
• विष्णु-लोके: Adhikaraṇa (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: विष्णु (प्रातिपदिक) + लोक (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (विष्णोः लोकः)

• सुख-आवहम्: bringing happiness
• सुख-आवहम्: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुख (प्रातिपदिक) + आवह (प्रातिपदिक from √वह्)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन; उपपद-तत्पुरुष (सुखम् आवहति इति)

• ततः: then/thereupon
• ततः: Kriyāviśeṣaṇa (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; ablatival adverb

• तस्याः: of her
• तस्याः: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• वचः: speech/words
• वचः: Karma (कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वचस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• श्रुत्वा: having heard
• श्रुत्वा: Pūrvakāla-kriyā (पूर्वकालक्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √श्रु (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्ययकृदन्त (gerund)

• लब्ध-पूर्व-स्मृतिः: having regained former memory
• लब्ध-पूर्व-स्मृतिः: Viśeṣaṇa (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: लब्ध (कृदन्त; √लभ्) + पूर्व (प्रातिपदिक) + स्मृति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; तत्पुरुष (पूर्वस्मृतिं लब्धः)

• नृपः: the king
• नृपः: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speaker

Mixed: first pāda is direct speech (Pṛthivī-framework); second half is narrator report

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Vaishnavism
• Dharma Narrative
• Afterlife Cosmology

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It combines vow-making with cosmological aspiration (Viṣṇuloka) and the narrative mechanism of recovered memory, typical of Purāṇic moral storytelling.

Which geographic location is identified?

The implied setting remains the Kokāmukha kṣetra introduced earlier; no new toponym appears here.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

Commitment to enacted dharma—practice, not mere hearing—is presented as the central ethical response to revealed instruction.