Varaha Purana 145.70: Adhyaya 145, Shloka 70
The Greatness of the Śālagrāma Sacred Region
तस्मिन् ह्रदे महाभागे मम वै नियमोदके ॥ मत्स्याश्चक्रांकिताश्चैव पर्यटन्ते इतस्ततः ॥
tasmin hrade mahābhāge mama vai niyamodake | matsyāś cakrāṅkitāś caiva paryaṭante itas tataḥ ||
In jenem hochbegnadeten See — ja, in meinem Wasser der rituellen Observanz — ziehen Fische, mit dem Zeichen des Chakras gezeichnet, hierhin und dorthin umher.
Varāha
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It preserves a distinctive motif—fish bearing a cakra mark—illustrating how Purāṇic texts blend natural features with symbolic iconography to intensify a site's sacral and cultural status.
The location is the lake Devahrada (from the immediate context); no further modern identification is available from this excerpt.
By presenting living beings within the sacred lake as marked and noteworthy, the verse supports an ethic of careful regard for fauna within culturally protected waterscapes.
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