Shloka 28
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
तिलङ्गा कुञ्जारदरीकच्छवासाश्च ये जनाः ।
ताम्रपर्णो तथा कुक्षिरिति कूर्मस्य दक्षिणः ॥
tilaṅgā kuñjāradarī-kaccha-vāsāś ca ye janāḥ | tāmraparṇo tathā kukṣir iti kūrmasya dakṣiṇaḥ ||
Die Tilaṅgas und die Menschen, die in den Sumpflanden (kaccha) des Elefantentals (Kuñjaradarī) wohnen; ebenso die Gegend Tāmraparṇī und der sogenannte „Bauch“ (kukṣi) — dies bildet den südlichen Teil der Kūrma‑Einteilung, die der Gestalt einer Schildkröte gleicht.
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FAQs
The ‘Kūrma’ metaphor organizes land into an intelligible sacred body-plan, implying that geography can be contemplated as an ordered whole rather than scattered localities.
Bhū-varṇana (cosmography), a common Purāṇic component that supports broader accounts of world-order.
The tortoise-body mapping echoes Vedic-Purāṇic body-cosmos correspondences: regions become limbs, suggesting the world as a living organism sustained by dharma.