Varaha Purana 83.4 — Adhyaya 83, Shloka 4
Description of the Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla Regions: Niṣadha’s Western Janapadas and River Systems
तथा च विशाखकम्बलजयन्तकृष्णहरिताशोकवर्द्धमानाः इत्येतॆषां सप्तकुलपर्वतानां कोटिशः प्रसूतिः।
tathā ca viśākha-kambala-jayanta-kṛṣṇa-haritāśoka-varddhamānā ity eteṣāṁ sapta-kula-parvatānāṁ koṭiśaḥ prasūtiḥ
وكذلك—فيشاكها (Viśākha)، كمبالا (Kambala)، جايانتا (Jayanta)، كريشنا (Kṛṣṇa)، هاريتاشوكا (Haritāśoka)، وفردّهامانا (Varddhamāna)—فإن لهذه الجبال السبعة ذات السلالة تكاثراً لا يُحصى (حرفياً: بالكرورات).
Rudra
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":true,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"None","karmic_consequence":"None"}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"cosmic-plenitude","core_concept":"The cosmos manifests in proliferating forms; the ‘countless’ (koṭiśaḥ) points to ananta-bheda within an ordered whole.","practical_application":"Cultivate humility before scale: treat one’s local sacred landscape as a microcosm within an immeasurable divine geography."}
Subject Matter: ["Geography","Cosmology","Heritage Sites"]
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: śānta
Type: mythic mountain lineages (kulaparvatas)
Related Themes: 83.3.0; 83.2.0
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A grand cosmographic tableau: seven named lineage-mountains, each branching into innumerable sub-ranges, like a sacred mountain family-tree across the horizon.","item_prompts":["seven principal mountains with name banners","branching sub-ranges multiplying into the distance","Rudra narrating with raised hand","sense of vast scale (tiny rivers/forests below)"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural: stylized repeating mountain motifs radiating from seven peaks; strong color blocks; Rudra as narrator; decorative name-panels.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore: gold-leaf ridgelines and embossed peak halos; seven central peaks emphasized; ornamental cartouches for names; cosmic grandeur.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore: intricate landscape with rhythmic mountain repetition; fine detailing on peaks and forests; balanced composition.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari: sweeping Himalayan-like ranges; seven highlighted peaks; delicate atmospheric perspective showing ‘countless’ proliferation."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"awe-filled enumeration","suggested_raga":"Darbari Kanada","pace":"medium-slow","voice_tone":"deep, expansive, resonant"}
FAQs
Named mountain catalogues are important for tracing intertextual geography across Purāṇas and for studying how landscapes were systematized in premodern India.
The verse provides a set of cosmographic mountain-names; direct one-to-one modern identifications are not secure without corroborating regional traditions and parallel textual witnesses.
No explicit instruction; the verse primarily sacralizes and systematizes landscape through naming.
Ask anything about this verse
Curious about the meaning, context, or a word? Ask, and continue the conversation in the Vedapath app.
A free Google sign-in keeps your chat saved across web and the app.
Read Varaha Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.