Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 79
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
मीनमेषौ द्विजश्रेष्ठ ! पादे पूर्वोत्तरे स्थितौ ।
कूर्मे देशास्तथर्क्षाणि देशेष्वेतेषु वै द्विज ॥
mīnameṣau dvijaśreṣṭha ! pāde pūrvottare sthitau / kūrme deśāstatharkṣāṇi deśeṣveteṣu vai dvija
হে দ্বিজশ্ৰেষ্ঠ! মীন আৰু মেষ ঈশান্য পাদত অৱস্থিত। এইদৰে (বিশ্ব) কূৰ্মত অঞ্চলসমূহ আৰু নক্ষত্ৰসমূহো—হে দ্বিজ—এই অঞ্চলসমূহত বিভক্তভাৱে বিন্যস্ত।
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FAQs
Human communities (deśas) are integrated into a cosmic order; collective events are not merely personal but can be read as regional/cosmic patterns, prompting communal rites and responsibility.
Sacred geography tied to cosmic structure is typically treated under Sarga/Pratisarga-related cosmology (world-structure), with practical application to omens.
The verse fuses ‘space’ (deśa) and ‘time’ (nakṣatra cycles) into one body-map—an esoteric statement that karmic time manifests as spatial destiny within the divine organism.