Varaha Purana 28.14: Adhyaya 28, Shloka 14
The Manifestation of Māyā as Durgā/Kātyāyanī and the Slaying of Vaitrāsura
सप्तद्वीपवतीं पश्चान्मेरुपर्वतमारोहत् । तत्रेन्द्रं प्रथमं जिग्ये पश्चादग्निं यमं ततः । निरृतिं वरुणं वायूं धनदश्चेश्वरं ततः ॥ २८.१४ ॥
saptadvīpavatīṃ paścān meru-parvatam āruhat | tatrendraṃ prathamaṃ jigye paścād agniṃ yamaṃ tataḥ | nirṛtiṃ varuṇaṃ vāyuṃ dhanadaś ceśvaraṃ tataḥ || 28.14 ||
बाद में वो मेरु पर्वत चढ़ा, जो सात द्वीपों के बीच में है। वहाँ पहले इंद्र को हराया, फिर अग्नि और यम को। उसके बाद निरृति, वरुण, वायु, और फिर कुबेर और ईश्वर को भी हरा दिया।
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmographic template—Meru as the axial mountain and a roster of major deities (often treated as lokapālas) that reflects the encyclopedic and systematizing aims of Purāṇic literature.
Mount Meru is named; in Purāṇic cosmography it functions as a mythic world-axis rather than a single securely identifiable physical mountain, though it has been compared in scholarship to Himalayan and Central Asian sacred-mountain concepts.
The verse is primarily descriptive (cosmographic and hierarchical) rather than prescriptive; its philosophical emphasis lies in ordered governance of the world—an imagined structure of authority associated with cosmic stability.
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