Varaha Purana 2.73: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 73
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
Pūrva Bhāga · Pr̥thivī-uddhāra and Rudra-ādi tattva-nirūpaṇa (thematic passage)
तस्याप्युरसि संविष्टो य एष शुचिरुज्ज्वलः । स सामवेदनामा तु रुद्ररूपी व्यवस्थितः । एष आदित्यवत् पापान्याशु नाशयते स्मृतः ॥ २.७२ ॥
tasyāpy urasi saṁviṣṭo ya eṣa śucir ujjvalaḥ | sa sāmavedanāmā tu rudrarūpī vyavasthitaḥ | eṣa ādityavat pāpāny āśu nāśayate smṛtaḥ || 2.72 ||
tasyApyurasi saMviShTo ya eSha shuchirujjvalaH | sa sAmavedanAmA tu rudrarUpI vyavasthitaH | eSha Adityavat pApAnyAshu nAshayate smRRitaH || 2.72 ||
และผู้ซึ่งประทับอยู่บนอุระของท่านนั้น ผู้บริสุทธิ์และรุ่งเรือง คือผู้ทรงนามว่า ‘สามเวท’ อันตั้งมั่นในรูปพระรุทระ เมื่อระลึกถึงแล้ว ย่อมทำลายบาปโดยเร็ว ดุจพระอาทิตย์
Sandhi Notes
- tasyāpy = tasya + api
- śucir ujjvalaḥ = śuciḥ + ujjvalaḥ (visarga sandhi)
- pāpāny āśu = pāpāni + āśu (i + ā → yā)
- ādityavat is upamā-formation with -vat used adverbially
Varāha
Curious, receiving theological clarification
Who is the radiant presence on the chest, and what purificatory power does remembrance confer?
Smaraṇa is a potent inner practice: remembering the divine (here via Sāmaveda/Rudra-tattva) purifies as surely as light removes darkness.
Adopt daily remembrance/chanting (especially sāman-like melodic recitation) as a mental prāyaścitta for ethical clarity.
Continues Varāha’s instruction within the dialogue frame.
Triadic Veda-theology integrates Vaiṣṇava frame with Rudra-tattva: Sāma (song/udgītha) is personified as Rudra, seated on the ‘chest’—the seat of breath/voice—linking chant to transformative power.
Sun-simile evokes ritual illumination: as Sāman is sung in soma-yajña, it ‘brightens’ the rite; chest-seat hints at prāṇa/udgītha locus (song arising from breath).
Upaniṣadic udgītha/prāṇa symbolism: sonic contemplation (smaraṇa/chant) purifies mind; sectarian boundaries soften as Rudra is integrated within a Viṣṇu-centered cosmology.
Smaraṇa (remembrance) of the Sāmaveda-deity (Rudra-form) destroys sins swiftly, like the Sun dispelling darkness.
Remembrance yields rapid pāpa-nāśa; forgetfulness implies continued impurity/obscuration (implied by sun/darkness analogy).
2.2.70-2.2.71 (Ṛg=Nārāyaṇa; Yajur=Brahmā)
FAQs
It reflects a Purāṇic style of correlating Vedic categories (here, the Sāmaveda) with deity-forms (Rudra), illustrating how later Sanskrit compendia systematized earlier Vedic material into devotional-cosmological mappings.
No specific geographic location is named in this verse; the focus is on a doctrinal identification (Sāmaveda as Rudra-form) and its purificatory effect.
The verse presents remembrance (smaraṇa/smṛti) of a pure, radiant principle—here linked with Rudra and the Sāmaveda—as a means of rapid moral purification (pāpa-nāśa), framed as an ethical-spiritual discipline rather than coercive doctrine.
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