Varaha Purana 75.1: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 1
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
रुद्र उवाच । अत ऊर्ध्वं प्रवक्ष्यामि जम्बूद्वीपं यथातथम् । संख्यां चापि समुद्राणां द्वीपानां चैव विस्तरम् ॥ ७५.१ ॥
rudra uvāca | ata ūrdhvaṃ pravakṣyāmi jambūdvīpaṃ yathātatham | saṅkhyāṃ cāpi samudrāṇāṃ dvīpānāṃ caiva vistaram || 75.1 ||
रुद्र बोले, अब मैं जम्बूद्वीप की सही बात बताता हूँ। समुंदर कितने हैं, द्वीप कितने बड़े हैं, यह सब बताऊँगा।
Rudra
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It functions as a formal transition into a cosmographic catalogue typical of Purāṇic literature, signaling an ordered exposition of the world-system (dvīpas and samudras) used in premodern South Asian intellectual geography.
Jambūdvīpa is named as the principal continent in Purāṇic cosmography; it is not a single modern cartographic region, but a schematic world-continent that later traditions sometimes correlate broadly with the known human world (often associated with Bhārata-varṣa as a sub-region).
No direct ethical injunction is stated here; the verse primarily introduces a descriptive, classificatory account of the world, supporting cultural-historical understanding of place, space, and cosmological order.
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