Varaha Purana 75.33: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 33
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
धनुःसंस्थे तु द्वे वर्षे विज्ञेये दक्षिणोत्तरे । द्वीपानि खलु चत्वारि चतुरस्त्रमिलावृतम् ॥ ७५.३३ ॥
dhanuḥsaṃsthe tu dve varṣe vijñeye dakṣiṇottare | dvīpāni khalu catvāri caturastramilāvṛtam || 75.33 ||
En la región dispuesta con forma de arco, deben entenderse dos varṣas: la meridional y la septentrional. En verdad hay cuatro islas (dvīpas), y Ilāvṛta es de figura cuadrangular.
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It reflects a Purāṇic cartographic imagination in which the world is organized into dvīpas and varṣas, preserving an early South Asian cosmological-geographical framework used for later literary and ritual topographies.
Ilāvṛta is named as a central region in Purāṇic geography; it is not a securely mappable modern location, but is treated in scholarship as a mytho-cosmological ‘central land’ within the dvīpa-varṣa schema.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical instruction lies in presenting an ordered cosmological structure, supporting cultural memory of landscapes as meaningful and systematically conceived.
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