Varaha Purana 136.95 — Adhyaya 136, Shloka 95
A Sūtra-like Manual of Expiations for Ritual Transgressions
सूकरत्वात्परिभ्रष्टः श्वा भवेच्च जुगुप्सितः ॥ ततः श्वत्त्वात्परिभ्रष्टो मानुषेषूपजायते
sūkaratvāt paribhraṣṭaḥ śvā bhavec ca jugupsitaḥ || tataḥ śvattvāt paribhraṣṭo mānuṣeṣūpajāyate
سور ہونے کی حالت سے گِر کر وہ نفرت انگیز کتا بن جاتا ہے؛ پھر کتے پن سے گِر کر انسانوں میں جنم لیتا ہے۔
Varāha
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":"prayaschitta","instruction_summary":"Adharmic conduct leads to degrading rebirths; ethical restraint is implied as the preventive rule.","karmic_consequence":"Moral fall results in animal rebirth (pig→dog) before returning to human birth, indicating painful, despised states as karmic maturation."}
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-samsara","core_concept":"Karma can precipitate downward transmigration; human birth is regained only after exhausting painful results.","practical_application":"Cultivate restraint and purity of conduct to avoid demeaning rebirths; treat human birth as a chance for correction."}
Subject Matter: ["Ethics","Karma and Rebirth"]
Primary Rasa: bhayanaka
Secondary Rasa: karuna
Type: None
Related Themes: Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue on karma and rebirth (surrounding 136.104–136.110 context)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"Didactic scene: Varāha instructs about karmic descent, with symbolic vignettes of a soul moving from pig to dog to human birth.","item_prompts":["Varāha as teacher","Bhu Devi listening","small narrative panels: pig, dog, human infant","scroll or palm-leaf manuscript motif","somber color palette"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural style: seated Varāha teaching, Bhu Devi attentive; side-registers showing pig and dog forms as karmic emblems; earthy reds/ochres, bold outlines.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore style: central Varāha with halo and ornaments; miniature medallions of pig/dog/human around; gold-leaf emphasis on divine figure, subdued tones for animal states.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore style: refined linework, gentle shading; Varāha’s calm instructive posture; symbolic pig/dog figures lightly rendered in margins.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari style: lyrical landscape margin; Varāha and Earth in dialogue foreground; small narrative sequence of rebirth forms in cloud-like cartouches."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"Admonitory, grave, reflective","suggested_raga":"Bhairavi","pace":"medium-slow","voice_tone":"firm, cautionary, didactic"}
FAQs
It reflects a widespread Indic didactic pattern: moral causality represented through a graded sequence of births, offering comparative material for Purāṇic and Dharmaśāstric ethics.
No geographic location is mentioned.
It conveys the idea of moral causation across lifetimes and implies the value of reform to avoid degrading states.
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