Varaha Purana 148.58: Adhyaya 148, Shloka 58
The Greatness of Stutasvāmi: Varāha’s Disclosure of the Bhūtagiri Sacred Landscape and Its Ethical Discipline
वर्त्तते च विशालाक्षि मणिपूरे गिरौ मम ॥ तावन्न पतते धारा यावत्पापं न धूयते
varttate ca viśālākṣi maṇipūre girau mama || tāvan na patate dhārā yāvat pāpaṃ na dhūyate
मेरे पहाड़ पर मणिपुर में एक नदी है। जब तक उसके पाप धुल नहीं जाते, तब तक पानी नहीं गिरता। पानी तभी गिरता है जब पाप साफ हो जाते हैं।
Varāha
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It exemplifies how Purāṇic texts encode sacred landscapes through hydrological motifs, linking water features with moral and ritual purification in cultural memory.
Maṇipūra mountain (maṇipūra giri) is named; its precise modern correlate is not established with certainty in mainstream scholarship.
Purification is represented as contingent on moral condition; the narrative ties ethical cleansing to engagement with a sanctified natural feature (a stream).
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