Varaha Purana 2.54: Adhyaya 2, Shloka 54
Cosmogony and the Ninefold Creation: Rudra’s Origin and the Prelude to the Sāvitrī-Veda Narrative
सप्तद्वीपेषु संस्थाप्य भरतादीन् सुतान् निजान् । स्वयँ विशालां वरदां गत्वा तेपे महत् तपः ॥ २.५३ ॥
saptadvīpeṣu saṁsthāpya bharatādīn sutān nijān | svayaṁ viśālāṁ varadāṁ gatvā tepe mahat tapaḥ || 2.53 ||
સપ્તદ્વીપોમાં ભરત વગેરે પોતાના પુત્રોને સ્થાપી, તે સ્વયં વરદાયિની વિશાલામાં જઈ મહાન તપ કર્યું।
Varāha (default narrative speaker within Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)
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The verse reflects a common Purāṇic strategy of linking political order (installation of heirs) with cosmographic imagination (the seven dvīpas), situating kingship within a pan-Indic sacred geography and an ascetic ideal.
Viśālā is named as a destination associated with boon-bestowing qualities; in wider Sanskrit literature, Viśālā can denote an important city/region (often discussed in relation to ancient North Indian urban centers), though precise identification varies by text and scholarly mapping.
The verse foregrounds a philosophical instruction that governance and worldly arrangement should be coupled with personal discipline (tapaḥ), presenting austerity as a stabilizing virtue after the establishment of social order.
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