Varaha Purana 47.3: Adhyaya 47, Shloka 3
The Rite of Śrāvaṇa Bright-Fortnight Dvādaśī (Dāmodara Worship) and the Exemplum of King Nṛga
चक्रपाणयेति भुजौ कण्ठं च हरये तथा । मुञ्जकेशाय च शिरो भद्रायेति शिखां तथा ॥ ४७.३ ॥
cakrapāṇayeti bhujau kaṇṭhaṃ ca haraye tathā | muñjakeśāya ca śiro bhadrāyeti śikhāṃ tathā || 47.3 ||
‘چکرپانی’ کہہ کر دونوں بازوؤں کا، اور اسی طرح ‘ہری’ کہہ کر گلے کا وِن्यास کرے۔ سر ‘مُنجکیش’ کے لیے، اور چوٹی (شِکھا) ‘بھدر’ کے لیے مقرر کرے۔
Varāha
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It preserves a ritual-technical register within Purāṇic literature, reflecting how devotional and liturgical practices (such as aṅga-nyāsa/body-assignment of divine names) circulated in Sanskrit textual traditions alongside narrative material.
No geographic location is named in this verse; the content is primarily ritual and iconographic (assigning divine epithets to body parts).
Rather than an explicit ethical injunction, the verse conveys a disciplined contemplative practice: aligning bodily awareness with named divine attributes, emphasizing attentiveness, order, and intentionality in ritual performance.
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