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Matsyapurana 72.19

Matsyapurāṇa 72.19

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Sanskrit

72.19

sa kadācidbhavāṃstasya pūjārghyādikamuttamam
dṛṣṭavānkriyamāṇaṃ ca śūdreṇa ca vyavasthitaḥ //

“Some Śudra was worshipping that planet Mars, and you saw the ceremony, on account of which you are so handsome and renowned, O you son of Prahlâda. You are known as Virôchana by the Devas and the Asuras, because you possess various (vi) far-reaching intelligence (Rochi), and hence you are called Virôchana (far-reaching light). I was astonished to see the great beauty possessed by you simply by your looking at the ceremony of Aṅgârakavrata, and consequently I greeted you with the words Sâdhu, Sâdhu, thinking of the great mahâtmya of that vrata. When, by merely looking at that ceremony, one gets beauty and lordliness as yours, I do not know what would be the case if a man were to observe this ordinance.”—19-22.

A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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