Varaha Purana 71.37: Adhyaya 71, Shloka 37
Vision of the Trimūrti in Rudra, the Gautama Curse, the Manifestation of the Godāvarī, and the Niḥśvāsa-saṃhitā Account
साधु गौतम साधूनां कोऽन्योऽस्ति सदृशस्तव । यदेवं जाह्नवीं देवीं दण्डके चावतारयत् ॥ ७१.३७ ॥
sādhu gautama sādhūnāṃ ko 'nyo 'sti sadṛśas tava | yad evaṃ jāhnavīṃ devīṃ daṇḍake cāvatārayat || 71.37 ||
उन्होंने कहा, "गौतम, तुमने बहुत अच्छा किया। अच्छे लोगों में तुम्हारा कोई सामने नहीं। तुमने गंगा को वहाँ उतारा और दंडक वन तक ले आए।"
Varāha (default speaker framework; explicit speaker not given in excerpt)
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The verse reflects a Purāṇic mode of linking revered sages with the sacralization of landscapes—especially rivers—thereby functioning as a textual witness to how cultural memory and geography are narrated in early Sanskrit traditions.
Daṇḍaka (Daṇḍakāraṇya) is named; in scholarship it is generally associated with a broad forest-region in central India (often correlated with parts of the Vindhya–Deccan corridor), though exact boundaries vary by text and period.
The verse foregrounds exemplary conduct (sādhu) by praising a figure credited with enabling communal access to a life-sustaining river; it implicitly elevates stewardship and benefaction toward the wider world as marks of virtue.
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