Varaha Purana 215.94: Adhyaya 215, Shloka 94
Description of the Māhātmya of Gokarṇeśvara and Jaleśvara (Śaileśvara) in the Śleṣmātaka Forest
देव्याः शिखरवासिन्या ज्ञेयं पूर्वोत्तरेण वै ॥ दक्षिणेन तु वाग्मत्याः प्रसृतं कन्दरॊदरात् ॥
devyāḥ śikharavāsinyā jñeyaṃ pūrvottareṇa vai | dakṣiṇena tu vāgmatyāḥ prasṛtaṃ kandarodarāt ||
पहाड़ी के ऊपर देवी का स्थान है, वो पूरब और उत्तर दिशा में है। दक्षिण तरफ से वाग्मती नदी निकलती है, वो एक गुफा के अंदर से बाहर आती है।
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It preserves a cartographic-style sacred geography using directional cues, typical of tīrtha literature that organizes landscapes by rivers, peaks, and cave-sources—useful for studying how premodern texts conceptualized terrain.
The river name Vāgmatī is explicit; in scholarship it often corresponds to rivers known by that name in South Asia, but this verse alone does not provide enough internal markers to fix a single modern identification with certainty.
The emphasis is descriptive rather than prescriptive: it instructs the reader to recognize and correctly locate sacred features in the landscape (jñeyam).
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