Varaha Purana 137.93: Adhyaya 137, Shloka 93
The Tale of the Vulture and the She-Jackal: The Māhātmya of the Saukarava Sacred Field
मरणं च विशालाक्षि श्वेतद्वीपं च गच्छति ॥ अन्यच्च ते प्रवक्ष्यामि तच्छृणुष्व वसुन्धरे ॥
maraṇaṁ ca viśālākṣi śvetadvīpaṁ ca gacchati || anyac ca te pravakṣyāmi tac chṛṇuṣva vasundhare ||
और मौत भी, बड़ी आँखों वाली, श्वेतद्वीप में जाती है। मैं तुम्हे और भी कुछ बताता हूँ, सुनो वसुंधरा।
Varāha (default instructor voice addressing Pṛthivī/Vasundharā)
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Śvetadvīpa is a recurring Purāṇic topos; its appearance helps map intertextual cosmography across Purāṇas and later Vaiṣṇava traditions.
Śvetadvīpa—presented as a mythic/cosmographic ‘island-continent’; modern scholarship typically treats it as a textual cosmology rather than a mappable terrestrial site.
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