Varaha Purana 81.10 — Adhyaya 81, Shloka 10
Description of the Divine Mountain Abodes: Meru, Devakūṭa, and Kailāsa
पञ्चदशसहस्राणि किन्नराणां ख्यातानि।
pañcadaśasahasrāṇi kinnarāṇāṁ khyātāni
કિન્નરો વિષે પંદર હજાર (વૃત્તાંત/પ્રકરણ) પ્રસિદ્ધ છે।
Varāha
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false,"aspect_highlighted":"None","boar_form_detail":"None","earth_interaction":"None"}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"None","key_question":"None"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false,"specific_site":"None","parikrama_context":"None","krishna_connection":"None"}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false,"topic":"None","instruction_summary":"None","karmic_consequence":"None"}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false,"vrata_name":"None","tithi_month":"None","promised_fruit":"None"}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false,"symbolic_interpretation":"None","yajna_varaha_imagery":"None","vedantic_connection":"None"}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"cosmic plurality","core_concept":"The Purāṇic universe is populated by many semi-divine species (like Kinnaras), and tradition preserves extensive accounts of them, indicating the breadth of dharma-cosmology.","practical_application":"Read enumerations as signals of scope and hierarchy; cultivate śraddhā without literalism when numbers function as markers of abundance."}
Subject Matter: ["Mythology","Textual Culture","Cosmology"]
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
Type: None
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 81 (Kinnara-related enumeration continues in adjacent verses)
Visual Art Cues: {"scene_description":"A cosmic register being recited: Varāha lists ‘fifteen thousand’ famed accounts of Kinnaras; the imagery can show Kinnaras as musician-beings in a celestial grove while scribes record numbers.","item_prompts":["Varāha narrating","celestial Kinnaras with instruments (vīṇā, flute)","counting motif: beads/akṣamālā or tally marks","palm-leaf scribe writing","sky-grove setting"],"kerala_mural_prompt":"Kerala mural: rhythmic line of Kinnaras playing vīṇā and mṛdaṅga in a stylized grove; Varāha at one side with teaching mudrā; decorative borders and saturated colors.","tanjore_prompt":"Tanjore: gold-leaf on instruments and ornaments; central Varāha with radiant halo; rows of Kinnaras as small but richly adorned figures; embossed numerative motif.","mysore_prompt":"Mysore: elegant courtly musicianship; Kinnaras with refined faces and detailed textiles; Varāha as narrator with manuscript bundle; soft background wash.","pahari_prompt":"Pahari: pastoral celestial hillside with musician Kinnaras; Varāha speaking to an unseen listener; delicate flora and lyrical composition."}
Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"cataloguing, wondrous","suggested_raga":"Raga Desh (open, narrative)","pace":"medium","voice_tone":"steady, counting emphasis on ‘pañcadaśa-sahasrāṇi’"}
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Large enumerations are characteristic of Purāṇic style, signaling abundance and the breadth of transmitted lore rather than modern statistical precision.
No specific location is given in this verse; it continues the thematic list of beings and associated renown.
No explicit ethical instruction is present; the verse emphasizes the prominence of certain narrative or cultural corpora.
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