The Greatness of the Sacred Pond Called Asikuṇḍa
तस्मिन्काले ह्यहं देवि मथुरायां समागतः ॥ तत्र तिष्ठाम्यहं भद्रे पश्चिमां दिशमाश्रितः ।
tasminkāle hy ahaṁ devi mathurāyāṁ samāgataḥ || tatra tiṣṭhāmy ahaṁ bhadre paścimāṁ diśam āśritaḥ |
Zu jener Zeit, o Göttin, kam ich nach Mathurā. Dort, o Gütige, verweile ich, indem ich die westliche Richtung zu meiner Wohnstatt nahm.
Varāha
Directional markers help correlate textual sacred topography with archaeological and historical reconstructions of Mathurā’s ritual landscape.
Mathurā, with an internal spatial note indicating the western sector (paścimā diś).
The verse is primarily locative rather than prescriptive; it supports place-based remembrance and orderly pilgrimage orientation.
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