Varaha Purana 126.13: Adhyaya 126, Shloka 13
The Greatness of Kubjāmraka: Raibhya’s Boon and the Teaching on the Sacred Tīrthas
तच्च कार्त्स्न्येन मे देवि शृणु तत्त्वेन सुन्दरी ॥ यथा कुब्जाम्रको जातस्ततस्तीर्थं यथाक्रमम्
tac ca kārtsnyena me devi śṛṇu tattvena sundarī || yathā kubjāmrako jātas tatas tīrthaṃ yathākramam
देवी, अब पूरा सुनो। मैं सच-सच बताऊंगा। सुंदर देवी, यह भी सुनो कि कुब्जाम्रक कैसे बना। फिर उस तीर्थ के बारे में भी बताऊंगा, एक-एक बात सही क्रम में।
Varāha (instructional continuation)
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It signals an etiological (origin) narrative about a place-name and its tīrtha status, a key method by which Purāṇas encode and transmit cultural geography.
Kubjāmraka is named as the focus of an origin account; the tīrtha is to be described subsequently in the narrative sequence.
The text foregrounds truthful, complete instruction (tattvena, kārtsnyena), presenting knowledge transmission as careful and ordered.
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