Varaha Purana 218.1: Adhyaya 218, Shloka 1
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Anukramaṇikā Chapter
Uttara Bhāga · Anukramaṇikā (Sacred Waters & Origin Narratives)
यमुनोद्भेदमहिमा कालिञ्जरसमुद्भवाः ॥ गङ्गोद्भेदस्य महिमा शापः स्याम्बस्य वै तथा
yamunodbhedamahimā kāliñjarasamudbhavāḥ || gaṅgodbhedasya mahimā śāpaḥ syāmbasya vai tathā
yamunodbhedamahimA kAli~njarasamudbhavAH|| gaMgodbhedasya mahimA shApaH syambasya vai tathA
यमुना कहाँ से निकली है, उसकी बात है। कालिंजर से जो चीज़ें शुरू हुई हैं। गंगा कहाँ से आई है, उसकी बात भी है। स्याम्बा की भी एक कहानी है जो उसके ऊपर श्राप लगा था।
Sandhi Notes
- यमुनोद्भेदमहिमा = यमुना + उद्भेद + महिमा (समास)
- गङ्गोद्भेदस्य = गङ्गा + उद्भेदस्य (समास)
Varāha
Divinity is encountered through sacred geography; origins (udbheda) and legends (śāpa) encode moral and spiritual memory into landscape.
Undertake tīrtha-yātrā with śraddhā: visit river-udbheda sites, hear their kathā, bathe/donate, and treat the landscape as a living scripture.
Indirect: Yamunā is Krishna’s primary river-landscape; praising Yamunā’s mahimā in Mathurā-maṇḍala frames the sacred geography later central to Kṛṣṇa-līlā.
Varāha Purāṇa: Mathurā-māhātmya sections that enumerate Yamunā tīrthas and related legends
FAQs
It highlights river-origin narratives and a named site (Kāliñjara), useful for tracing how Purāṇic texts encode cultural geography and water-centered heritage memory.
Kāliñjara is named; it is commonly correlated with the Kalinjar region/fort area in present-day Madhya Pradesh–Uttar Pradesh border scholarship, though identifications can vary by source.
By emphasizing the ‘mahimā’ of rivers and origin accounts, it supports a reverential, stewardship-oriented attitude toward water sources as cultural and ecological heritage.
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