Varaha Purana 148.45: Adhyaya 148, Shloka 45
The Greatness of Stutasvāmi: Varāha’s Disclosure of the Bhūtagiri Sacred Landscape and Its Ethical Discipline
भृगुकुण्डेति विख्यातमत्र गुह्यं परं मम ॥ मम दक्षिणपार्श्वे तु अदूरादर्धयोजनात् ॥
bhṛgukuṇḍeti vikhyātam atra guhyaṁ paraṁ mama || mama dakṣiṇapārśve tu adūrād ardhayojanāt ||
Hier ist der heilige Teich, bekannt als Bhṛgu-kuṇḍa — mein höchstes Geheimnis. Er liegt an meiner Südseite, nicht fern, in einer Entfernung von einer halben Yojana.
Varāha
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It preserves a micro-topography of a tīrtha landscape by naming a specific kuṇḍa and giving a relative distance, a common Purāṇic method for encoding pilgrimage geography.
Bhṛgu-kuṇḍa is identified as a named water-site situated ‘south’ of the narrator’s kṣetra; precise modern identification is uncertain without corroborating regional toponymy and manuscript tradition.
The verse frames the site as a protected cultural-heritage locus (guhya), implying careful approach and custodianship of sacred water geography.
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