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Yajna-varaha鈥擲ome more Material [yajnavarahah鈥攖atsambandhini kacidadhika samagri] / By Dr. V. Raghavan ; Professor and Head of the Sanskrit Deptt., Madras University / 202-203

In the last issue of the Purana, several textual sources bearing on the concept of Yajnavaraha were presented. Further search has shown that, in addition to the sevaral Puranas already taken note of, Yajnavaraha is described in two more places in the Puranas, a second time in the Vayu and once in the Narasimha. (i). The context already noticed in Vayu is the earlier one, in 6.16 ff., which gives the vulgate version of the Yajnavaraha concept. In the same Puraya, in chapter 23, verses 103-108, we are given another description of the Yajnavaraha which has little to do with the general conception already noticed. Here is a special conception of Yajnavaraha as the embodiment of Kala, Time, although this conception is not bereft of elements of the former sacrificial symbolism; in fact, the Samvatsaraequation is given a further extension to the equation with sacrifice. sadhyo narayanascaiva visnustribhuvanesvarah | bhavisyatiha namna tu varaho nama visrutah || caturbahuscatuspadah catunemtrascaturmukhah | tada samvatsaro bhutva yajnarupo bhavisyati || sadangasca trisirsasca tristhanastrisariravan | krtam treta dvaparam ca kaliscaiva caturyugam || etasya padascatvarah angani katavastatha || bhunasca vedascatvarah rtussandhimukhani ca | dve mukhe dve ca ayane netrasca caturastatha || Jan., 1964] YAJNA-VARAHA siramsi trini parvani phalgunyapadhakrttikah | divyantariksa bhaumani trini sthanani yani tu || sambhavah pralayascaiva asramau dvau prakirtiti | sa yada kalarupabho barahatve vyavasthitah || bhavisyati yada sadhyo visnurnarayanah prabhuh | 203 (ii). The second one is in the Narasimhapurana, Ch. 39, verses 10-13, which gives the well-known Vedic and sacrificial symbolism; some of the elements of the imagery here agree with those in the Vispupurana, Siktas as Sata ( manes) and charitable acts or Purtesta as ears. atha vedamayam rupam varaham vapurasthitam | vedapadam yupadamstram ketuvaktra naradhipa | vyudhoraskam mahabahu prthuvaktram naradhipa | agninihavam dhruvam tundam candrarkanayanam mahat || purtestadharmasravanam divyam tatsamanihsvanam | pragvamsakayam havirnasam kusadarbhatanuruham || sarvavedamayam tacca punyasuktamahasatam | naksatrataraharam ca pralayavarttabhusanam || ittham krtva tu varaham pravivesa vrsakapih | rasatalam nrpa srestha sanakadyairabhistutah || (iii). A third reference to Yajnavaraha that may be added is the one in the Taittiriya-Aranyaka X. i. where, in a verse to Earth, Varaha who lifted her up is described as hundred-armed, Sata-bahu---- uddhrtasi varahena krsnena satabahuna | What the hundred arms represent is not clear; there is no help from Sayana or Bhatta Bhaskara; they could be understood if Varaha is Surya, an equation underlying, although somewhat darkly, the final line of the Yajna-varaha description in Matsya etc. -- chayapatnisahayah etc.