Varaha Purana 137.53: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 53
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
तीर्थेषु तेषु स्नातश्च यां प्राप्नोति परां गतिम् ॥ चक्रतीर्थं महाभागे यत्र चक्रं प्रतिष्ठितम्
tīrtheṣu teṣu snātaś ca yāṃ prāpnoti parāṃ gatim || cakratīrthaṃ mahābhāge yatra cakraṃ pratiṣṭhitam
जब कोई इन तीर्थों में नहा लेता है, वो बड़ी जगह पहुँचता है। एक जगह चक्र तीर्थ है। वहाँ विष्णु की चक्र स्थापित है।
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not stated in fragment)
FAQs
It preserves a toponym (Cakratīrtha) and a typical Purāṇic claim about tīrtha efficacy, relevant to mapping pilgrimage networks and the rhetoric of sacred-space legitimation.
Cakratīrtha is explicitly named; the fragment alone does not provide enough data to securely equate it with a single modern site without additional manuscript/contextual corroboration.
The instruction centers on tīrtha practice—bathing at designated sites—as a culturally framed means of moral-spiritual refinement.
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