Varaha Purana 126.29: Adhyaya 126, Shloka 29
The Greatness of Kubjāmraka: Raibhya’s Boon and the Teaching on the Sacred Tīrthas
नकुलोऽहं महाराज वसामि कदलीतले ॥ ततोऽहं कालसंयुक्तः प्राप्तो निर्माल्यकूटकम्
nakulo 'haṃ mahārāja vasāmi kadalītale || tato 'haṃ kālasaṃyuktaḥ prāpto nirmālyakūṭakam
महाराज, मैं नकुल हूँ, यह नेवला जैसा जानवर। मैं केले के पेड़ के नीचे रहता हूँ। फिर वक्त आया और मैं निर्माल्यकूट पहुँच गया।
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It introduces a non-human narrator/agent (mongoose), a common Purāṇic technique for embedding moral and place-origin stories in ecological settings.
Nirmālyakūṭa is again named; the immediate micro-setting includes a kadalī (plantain/banana) grove context.
The verse foregrounds time (kāla) and habitat as narrative determinants, implicitly linking conduct and consequence to place and circumstance.
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