Varaha Purana 90.4: Adhyaya 90, Shloka 4
Description of the Threefold Goddess-Power and Brahmā’s Hymn to Sṛṣṭi
Pūrva Bhāga · Devī-stuti and Universal Origination
देवानां दानवानां च यक्षगन्धर्वरक्षसाम् । पशूनां वीरुधां चापि त्वमुत्पत्तिर्वरानने ॥
devānāṁ dānavānāṁ ca yakṣa-gandharva-rakṣasām | paśūnāṁ vīrudhāṁ cāpi tvam utpattir varānane ||
devAnAM dAnavAnAM cha yakShagandharvarakShasAm | pashUnAM vIrudhAM chApi tvamutpattirvarAnane
ทั้งเหล่าเทพและทานวะ ทั้งยักษะ คนธรรพ์ และรากษสา ตลอดจนสัตว์ทั้งหลายและพืชพรรณ—โอ้ผู้พักตร์งาม พระองค์คือบ่อเกิดแห่งการอุบัติของทั้งหมดนั้น.
Sandhi Notes
- चापि = च + अपि
- त्वमुत्पत्तिः = त्वम् + उत्पत्तिः
- उत्पत्तिर्वरानने = उत्पत्तिः + वरानने
Varāha
Praised, affirmed as cosmic mother; implicitly steady and sustaining
All differentiated beings share a single originating ground; ecological and mythic categories are unified in one source.
Cultivate reverence for Earth and restraint toward living beings and plants, seeing them as arising from the same sacred matrix.
Varāha addresses Bhū as the generative matrix of beings, praising her as universal source rather than depicting physical rescue.
Bhū is presented as the upādāna (material ground) for the entire taxonomy of beings; Varāha’s theology frames Earth as the manifest field (kṣetra) in which names-and-forms arise.
Implicit yajña-cosmos: all classes of beings (deva to vīrudh) are ‘born’ from Bhū as from the altar-field.
Leans toward Sāṃkhya/Vedānta-style cosmology: Bhū as manifest prakṛti/adhāra; multiplicity of jīva-bheda arises on a single sustaining ground.
Varāha Purāṇa 90.90 (Devī/Bhū-stuti sequence)
FAQs
It preserves a Purāṇic cataloging style that integrates divine, semi-divine, and natural categories into a single cosmological framework of origin.
No location is specified; the verse is a universal enumeration of beings.
By placing animals and plants within the same origin-principle as other beings, it supports a worldview conducive to ecological regard and non-reductive valuation of life.
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