Varaha Purana 149.7: Adhyaya 149, Shloka 7
The Sacred Geography and Merit of Dvārakā
द्वारकेति च विख्याता पुरी तत्र स्थिता अभवत् ॥ या च देवपुरी रम्या विश्वकर्मविनिर्मिता ॥
dvāraketi ca vikhyātā purī tatra sthitā abhavat || yā ca devapurī ramyā viśvakarmavinirmitā
Dort stand eine Stadt, bekannt als Dvārakā—lieblich wie eine Götterstadt—erbaut von Viśvakarman.
Varāha (narrative voice continuing)
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It preserves a Purāṇic memory of Dvārakā as an idealized, divinely engineered city—important for cultural geography and later pilgrimage literature.
Dvārakā, commonly associated by scholars with the western Indian coastal region (modern Dwarka area in Gujarat), though Purāṇic geography blends mythic and historical layers.
Implicitly, it elevates civic order and craftsmanship as cultural ideals, linking built environments with moral and cosmic order.
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