Mahabharata · Chapter 2.45
prādurbhāvasahasrāṇi samatītānyanekaśaḥ /
yathāśakti tu vakṣyāmi śṛṇu tānkurunandana //
purā kamalanābhasya svapataḥ sāgarāmbhasi /
puṣkare yatra sambhūtā devā ṛṣigaṇaiḥ saha //
eṣa pauṣkariko nāma prādurbhāvaḥ prakīrtitaḥ /
purāṇaiḥ kathyate yatra vedaśrutisamāhitaḥ //
vārāhastu śrutisukhaḥ prādurbhāvo mahātmanaḥ /
yatra viṣṇuḥ suraśreṣṭho vārāhaṃ rūpamāsthitaḥ //
ujjahāra mahīṃ toyātsaśailavanakānanām /
vedapādo yūpadaṃṣṭraḥ kraturdantaścitīmukhaḥ //
agnijihvo darbharomā brahmaśīrṣo mahātapāḥ /
ahorātrekṣaṇo divyo vedāṅgaḥ śrutibhūṣaṇaḥ //
ājyanāsaḥ sruvaṃ tuṇḍaṃ sāmaghoṣasvano mahān /
dharmasatyamayaḥ śrīmānkarmavikramasatkṛtaḥ //
prāyaścittamukho dhīraḥ paśujānurmahāvṛṣaḥ /
audgātrahomaliṅgo'sau paśubījamahauṣadhiḥ //
bāhyantarātmā mantrāsthivikṛtaḥ saumyadarśanaḥ /
vediskandho havirgandho havyakavyābhivegavān //
prāgvaṃśakāyo dyutimānnānādīkṣābhirūrjitaḥ /
dakṣiṇāhṛdayo yogī mahāśāstramayo mahān //
upākarmoṣṭharucakaḥ prāvargyāvartabhūṣaṇaḥ /
śālāpatnīsahāyo vai maṇiśṛṅgasamucchritaḥ //
evaṃ yajñavarāho vai bhūtvā viṣṇuḥ sanātanaḥ /
mahīṃ sāgaraparyantāṃ saśailavanakānanām //
ekārṇavajale bhraṣṭāmekārṇavagataḥ prabhuḥ /
majjantīṃ salile tasminsvadevīṃ pṛthivīṃ tadā //
ujjahāra viṣāṇena mārgaṇḍeyasya paśyataḥ /
śṛṅgeṇa yaḥ samuddhṛtya lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā //
sahasraśīrṣo deveśo nirmame jagatīṃ prabhuḥ /
evaṃ yajñavarāheṇa bhūtabhavyabhātmanā //
uddhṛtā pṛthivī devī pūjyā vai sāgarāmbarā /
nihatā dānavāḥ sarve devadevena viṣṇunā //
vārāhaḥ kathito hyeṣa nārasiṃhamato śṛṇu /
yatra bhūtvā mṛgendreṇa hiraṇyakaśipurhataḥ //
Original text: Mahābhārata (southern recension) · Edition: Śrīman Mahābhāratam, ed. T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay 1906–1910; e-text by SARIT (Shrinivasa Varakhedi and others) · SARIT: Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts · SARIT (e-text) via Internet Archive · CC BY-SA 3.0