Varaha Purana 75.21: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 21
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
मध्यं तस्य महामेरुर्विधूम इव पावकः । वेद्यर्धं दक्षिणं मेरोरुत्तरार्धं तथोत्तरम् ॥ ७५.२१ ॥
madhyaṃ tasya mahāmerur vidhūma iva pāvakaḥ | vedyardhaṃ dakṣiṇaṃ meror uttarārdhaṃ tathottaram || 75.21 ||
इसके बीच में बड़ा मेरु पर्वत है। यह ऐसा है जैसे बिना धुआं की आग। मेरु का दक्षिण हिस्सा वेद्य-अर्ध कहते हैं। उत्तर हिस्सा उत्तर ही है।
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It preserves a standard Purāṇic cosmographic model that organizes the world around Mount Meru, reflecting how premodern Sanskrit literature systematized sacred geography and cosmology for teaching and memorization.
Mahāmeru (Mount Meru) is a cosmological axis-mountain rather than a single empirically fixed site; in scholarship it is treated as a mythic-geographic construct that anchors Purāṇic world-maps, sometimes compared (cautiously) with Central Asian highland imaginaries.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to present an ordered cosmos, supporting a worldview in which landscapes are classified and related through an intelligible structure.
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