Varaha Purana 73.12: Adhyaya 73, Shloka 12
Rudra’s Hymn: Vision of Nārāyaṇa, the Emergence of the Ādityas, and the Mutual Boon of Hari and Hara
एवमुक्तस्तु रुद्रेण स पुमान् प्रत्यभाषत । अहं नारायणो देवो जलशायी सनातनः ॥ ७३.१२ ॥
evam uktas tu rudreṇa sa pumān pratyabhāṣata | ahaṁ nārāyaṇo devo jalāśāyī sanātanaḥ || 73.12 ||
رُدر کے یوں کہنے پر اُس پُرش نے جواب دیا— “میں نارائن دیو ہوں؛ پانی پر شایان رہنے والا، ازلی و ابدی۔”
Unspecified person (self-identifying as Nārāyaṇa); interlocutor: Rudra
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It exemplifies a common Purāṇic narrative device: a theophany where a figure explicitly self-identifies using established epithets, aiding textual cross-referencing across Vaiṣṇava cosmological motifs (e.g., the deity reclining on primordial waters).
No geographic location is named in this verse; the imagery is cosmological (“waters” as primordial/creation-setting) rather than topographical.
The verse is primarily identificatory rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to establish authority and cosmological identity within the dialogue framework.
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