Varaha Purana 10.35: Adhyaya 10, Shloka 35
The Threefold Division by the Guṇas, the Deities’ Attainment of Worship, and the Opening of the Durjaya Episode
ततः परतरं चान्यद्धरिवर्षं जिगाय सः । रम्यं हिरण्मयं चापि कुरुभद्राश्वमेव च । इलावृतं मेरुमध्यमेतत्सर्वं जिगाय सः ॥ १०.३६ ॥
tataḥ parataraṃ cānyad dharivarṣaṃ jigāya saḥ | ramyaṃ hiraṇmayaṃ cāpi kurubhadrāśvam eva ca | ilāvṛtaṃ meru-madhyam etat sarvaṃ jigāya saḥ || 10.36 ||
Darüber hinaus bezwang er auch eine weitere Region, Harivarṣa; ebenso Ramyaka, Hiraṇmaya und auch Kurubhadrāśva. All dies eroberte er: Ilāvṛta, in dessen Mitte der Berg Meru steht.
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It exemplifies Purāṇic cosmography by cataloging named varṣas (macro-regions) and positioning Ilāvṛta with Meru at the center, a standard organizing principle in early Indian geographic imagination and textual world-mapping.
Ilāvṛta with Mount Meru at its center is identified; in scholarship this is typically treated as a mytho-cosmological central zone rather than a single mappable terrestrial location, while the named varṣas function as cosmographic regions within Jambūdvīpa frameworks.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical instruction is the presentation of an ordered cosmos—structured regions around a central axis (Meru)—supporting cultural memory of sacred geography and cosmological order.
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