Varaha Purana 76.1: Adhyaya 76, Shloka 1
Description of Svarga: Amarāvatī, the Sudharmā Assembly Hall, and the Directional Cities
रुद्र उवाच । तस्यैव मेरोः पूर्वे तु देशे परमवर्चसे । चक्रवाटपरिक्षिप्ते नानाधातुविराजिते ॥ ७६.१ ॥
rudra uvāca | tasyaiva meroḥ pūrve tu deśe paramavarcase | cakravāṭaparikṣipte nānādhātuvirājite || 76.1 ||
Rudra sprach: „Östlich von eben diesem Berge Meru liegt ein Land von höchster Strahlkraft, umschlossen von einem cakravāṭa (ringförmiger Gebirgszug/Windbarriere), glänzend durch vielerlei Mineralien.“
Rudra
FAQs
It exemplifies Purāṇic cosmography by mapping idealized regions around Mount Meru and describing them through radiance, enclosure (cakravāṭa), and mineral abundance—features typical of Sanskrit geographical imagination rather than empirical cartography.
The verse identifies a region ‘east of Mount Meru’ (meroḥ pūrve deśe). In scholarship, Meru is generally treated as a mythic cosmic mountain used as a structuring axis for Purāṇic world-description rather than a single securely identifiable modern peak.
No direct ethical injunction is stated; however, the emphasis on a land ‘resplendent with diverse minerals’ can be archived under cultural-ecological themes as a descriptive valuation of landscape and natural resources within Purāṇic sacred geography.
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