Varaha Purana 201.6 — Adhyaya 201, Shloka 6
The Battle between the Rākṣasas and Yama’s Attendant-Messengers
निःसृतः स च रोषेण चित्रगुप्तेन धीमता ॥ ततः स त्वरितं गत्वा मन्देहा नाम राक्षसाः ॥
niḥsṛtaḥ sa ca roṣeṇa citraguptena dhīmatā || tataḥ sa tvaritaṃ gatvā mandehā nāma rākṣasāḥ ||
Siya’y pinalayas dahil sa poot ng marunong na si Citragupta. Pagkaraan, nagmadali siyang lumakad at nilapitan ang mga rākṣasa na tinatawag na Mandeha.
Varāha (default speaker framework; not explicit in fragment)
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":true,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"The afterlife bureaucracy (Citragupta) expels a wrongdoer and redirects him toward punitive/demonic agencies, implying karmic accountability under impartial record-keeping.","karmic_consequence":"Misdeeds lead to expulsion from safer stations and association with destructive rākṣasa-forces; righteous conduct avoids such descent."}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"karma-nyaya (moral causality)","core_concept":"Cosmic order operates through impartial accounting; wrath here functions as dharmic enforcement, not personal caprice.","practical_application":"Live with accountability (satya, ahiṃsā, restraint), remembering that actions are ‘recorded’ and yield fitting associations and outcomes."}
Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Cosmology"]
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: raudra
Type: otherworldly court/office of karmic record
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa ch.201 narrative on Citragupta and Mandehas (implied sequence)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A stern, luminous Citragupta drives out an offender; the expelled figure rushes toward a shadowy band of Mandeha rākṣasas gathering at the edge of a dark corridor of the afterworld.","item_prompts":["Citragupta with scroll/ledger","gesture of expulsion/command","dark passage or threshold","approaching rākṣasas labeled ‘Mandeha’","contrast of light (administration) vs shadow (demons)"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: Citragupta in bright ochres/greens with stylized ledger; the expelled soul smaller, moving toward dark rākṣasas at frame edge; strong linework and flat color fields.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore style: Citragupta frontal with gold-leaf halo and ornate jewelry; embossed ledger; rākṣasas in darker tones at side; dramatic threshold motif.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore style: delicate shading, refined ornaments on Citragupta; subdued but clear narrative separation between court and demon-side corridor.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari style: mountainous-cloudlike otherworld backdrop; Citragupta seated in a small court pavilion; the figure running toward clustered rākṣasas in a darker grove-like corner."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"grave, judicial","suggested_raga":"Bhairav","pace":"medium","voice_tone":"firm, clipped, narrative"}
FAQs
Citragupta appears as an administrative-judicial figure in later Sanskrit traditions; this verse participates in that cultural memory of moral accounting and enforcement.
No explicit place-name is given; “Mandeha” here functions as a group name rather than a mapped location.
Accountability is implied through the figure of Citragupta, whose anger and action suggest consequences for wrongdoing within a moral-legal cosmic order.
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