Shloka 8
Adhyaya 59 — Cosmic Geography and Yuga-Order: Bhadrashva, Ketumala, and the Northern Kuru Region
नद्योऽथ बह्व्यो विस्तीर्णाः शीततोयौघवाहिकाः ।
अत्र वर्षे नराः शङ्खशुद्धहेमसमप्रभाः ॥
nadyo ’tha bahvyo vistīrṇāḥ śītatoyaughavāhikāḥ / atra varṣe narāḥ śaṅkhaśuddhahemasamaprabhāḥ
Et de nombreux fleuves larges s’écoulent, portant des courants d’eaux fraîches. Dans ce varṣa, les gens resplendissent comme la conque, comme l’or pur, et ainsi de suite.
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FAQs
The environment is depicted as pure and life-sustaining, and the people reflect that purity—echoing the Purāṇic intuition that inner and outer purity reinforce one another.
Cosmography; descriptive elaboration of the created world (supporting 'Sarga/Pratisarga').
Cool, abundant waters symbolize the flow of sattva and calm prāṇa; conch and gold imagery signify luminosity (ojas/tejas) arising from purity.