Varaha Purana 75.13: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 13
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
चतुर्वर्णः स सुवर्णो मेरुश्चोल्बमयो गिरिः । वृत्ताकृतिप्रमाणश्च चतुरस्त्रः समुच्छितः ॥ ७५.१३ ॥
caturvarṇaḥ sa suvarṇo meruś colbamayo giriḥ | vṛttākṛtipramāṇaś ca caturastraḥ samucchitaḥ || 75.13 ||
मेरु पहाड़ के चार रंग हैं। यह सोना जैसा है, चमकता हुआ पहाड़ है। इसकी शेप गोल है और चार तरफ से भी है। यह ऊँचा उठता है।
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It preserves a standard Purāṇic cosmographic motif—Meru as the central axis-mountain—useful for comparing how different Purāṇas systematize sacred geography and cosmology.
Meru is a cosmological (mythic-geographic) central mountain rather than a single empirically fixed site; scholarship often discusses it as an idealized axis mundi concept, sometimes compared (cautiously) with Himalayan imaginaries in later reception.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to situate the world within an ordered cosmic geography, supporting cultural memory and the conceptual mapping of sacred space.
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