Varaha Purana 136.92: Adhyaya 136, Shloka 92

A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions

Pūrva Bhāga · Prāyaścitta (Expiation) Procedures

Devanagari script

पञ्चगव्यं ततः पीत्वा शीघ्रं मुच्यति किल्बिषात् ॥ य एतेन विधानॆन प्रायश्चित्तं समाचरेत्

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 136.92

Transliteration

pañcagavyaṁ tataḥ pītvā śīghraṁ mucyati kilbiṣāt || ya etena vidhānena prāyaścittaṁ samācaret

ITRANS transliteration

Translation

แล้วจึงดื่มปัญจคัวยะ (pañcagavya) เขาย่อมหลุดพ้นจากบาปโดยเร็ว ผู้ใดประกอบการไถ่บาป (ปรायัศจิตตะ) ตามวิธีนี้—

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Word by Word

• पञ्चगव्यम्: pañcagavya (mixture of five cow-products)
• Type: Noun
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (Singular); द्विगु-समासः ‘पञ्चानां गव्यानां समाहारः’ (five cow-products)
• Role: Karma (कर्म/Object of ‘पीत्वा’)
• Root: पञ्च (प्रातिपदिक) + गव्य (प्रातिपदिक)

• ततः: then; thereafter
• Type: Indeclinable
• Form: तसिल्-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (ablatival adverb: ‘from/thereafter’)
• Role: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Sequence)
• Root: ततः (अव्यय/तद्-तसिल्)

• पीत्वा: having drunk
• Type: Verb
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), ‘having drunk’
• Role: Kriya-viseshana (क्रियाविशेषण/Preceding action)
• Root: पा (धातु)

• शीघ्रम्: quickly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण-अव्यय (adverb)
• Role: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Adverbial)
• Root: शीघ्र (प्रातिपदिक)

• मुच्यति: is freed
• Type: Verb
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), आत्मनेपद (Ātmanepada); कर्मणि-प्रयोग (passive sense)
• Role: Kriya (क्रिया/Verb)
• Root: मुच् (धातु)

• किल्बिषात्: from sin
• Type: Noun
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), पञ्चमी-विभक्ति (Ablative/5th), एकवचन (Singular)
• Role: Apadana (अपादान/Source—‘from sin’)
• Root: किल्बिष (प्रातिपदिक)

• यः: who
• Type: Noun
• Form: सर्वनाम (relative pronoun), पुंलिङ्ग (Masculine), प्रथमा-विभक्ति (Nominative/1st), एकवचन (Singular)
• Role: Karta (कर्ता/Subject—relative)
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• एतेन: by this
• Type: Noun
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन (Singular)
• Role: Karana (करण/Instrument)
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)

• विधानेन: by the procedure; by the rule
• Type: Noun
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), तृतीया-विभक्ति (Instrumental/3rd), एकवचन (Singular)
• Role: Karana (करण/Means)
• Root: विधान (प्रातिपदिक)

• प्रायश्चित्तम्: expiation; penance
• Type: Noun
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग (Neuter), द्वितीया-विभक्ति (Accusative/2nd), एकवचन (Singular); तत्पुरुष-समासः (traditional) ‘प्रायः + चित्त’ (expiation)
• Role: Karma (कर्म/Object of ‘समाचरेत्’)
• Root: प्रायश्चित्त (प्रातिपदिक)

• समाचरेत्: should perform; should practice
• Type: Verb
• Form: विधिलिङ्-लकार (Optative), प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (Singular), परस्मैपद (Parasmaipada); उपसर्गः सम् + आ-
• Role: Kriya (क्रिया/Verb)
• Root: आचर् (धातु)

Sandhi Notes

• पञ्चगव्यं (dvigu)
• तच्छृणुष्व not here
• समाचरेत् is optative with prefixes सम्+आ-

Speaker and setting

Shanta rasa

Speaker

Varāha

Bhu Devi and Varaha

In this verse

Varaha teaches her

Her state of mind

Concerned about purification, receptive to remedy

What she asks

What specific act removes sin quickly, and what is the authorized procedure for expiation?

The teaching

Kind of teaching

Ethical purification / śauca

Subjects

EthicsRitual Practice

Core idea

Moral repair is possible through prescribed discipline and purificatory sacraments; intention plus correct means restores dharmic standing.

In practice

When undertaking expiation, follow a recognized vidhi under guidance; treat purification as both bodily and ethical recalibration.

The Varaha avatara

With the Earth

Varāha teaches Earth a concrete expiatory method: drinking pañcagavya for quick release from sin.

Dharma

Cross references

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Ritual
• Vaiṣṇavism
• Dharmaśāstra Interface

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It provides a clear Purāṇic witness to pañcagavya as a purification element within expiatory rites, relevant to the history of ritual materials and normative ethics.

Which geographic location is identified?

No geographic location is specified in this verse.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

It recommends a prescribed expiatory procedure—fasting and ritual intake—framed as a means to remove moral defilement.