Varaha Purana 206.42: Adhyaya 206, Shloka 42
Section on the Manifestation of the Fruits of Auspicious Deeds
सर्वसन्धिषु साध्याश्च चन्द्रादित्यौ तु लोचने ॥ ककुदे सर्वक्षत्राणि लाङ्गूले धर्म आश्रितः ॥
sarvasandhiṣu sādhyāśca candrādityau tu locane || kakude sarvakṣatrāṇi lāṅgūle dharma āśritaḥ
इसके सब जॉइंट्स पर देवी-देवता हैं। चाँद और सूरज दोनों आँखें हैं। उसके ऊपर की हम्प पर राज्य की पावर है। और पूँछ पर धरम बैठा है।
Varāha (default framework; speaker not explicit in this fragment)
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It exemplifies Purāṇic cosmological mapping—associating social orders and celestial bodies with a symbolic body—useful for studying Indic mythic semiotics.
No geographic site is named; the verse is a symbolic/cosmological description rather than a topographic one.
Dharma is portrayed as foundational and ‘supporting’—a stabilizing principle embedded in the world-order imagery.
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