Varaha Purana 34.4: Adhyaya 34, Shloka 4
Account of the Origin of the Ancestors (Pitṛs) and the Regulations for Śrāddha Offerings
पिबाम इति भाषन्तः सुरान् सोम इति स्म ह । ऊर्ध्वं जिगमिषन्तो वै वियत्संस्थास्तपस्विनः ॥ ३४.४ ॥
pibāma iti bhāṣantaḥ surān soma iti sma ha | ūrdhvaṃ jigamiṣanto vai viyatsaṃsthās tapasvinaḥ || 34.4 ||
“آؤ پئیں” کہتے ہوئے انہوں نے سُرا ہی کو “سوم” کہا؛ اور آسمان میں مقیم وہ تپسوی حقیقتاً اوپر اٹھنے کے ارادے والے تھے۔
Varāha (default framework; speaker not explicit in excerpt)
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It preserves a Purāṇic narrative idiom where ritual vocabulary (e.g., “Soma”) is applied in a broader, sometimes ironic or descriptive way, illustrating how later Sanskrit texts reframe older Vedic terms within new storytelling contexts.
No specific terrestrial location is named in this verse; the setting is described cosmologically as “viyat” (the sky/firmament), indicating an aerial or celestial locus rather than a mapped pilgrimage site.
The verse does not state a direct moral injunction; it primarily contrasts speech/labeling (“calling surā ‘Soma’”) with the ascetics’ upward striving, inviting textual attention to intent, discipline, and the semantics of ritual terms.
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