Varaha Purana 75.40: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 40
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
अव्यक्ता धातवः सर्वे समुत्पन्ना जलादयः । अव्यक्तात् पृथिवीपद्मं मेरुस्तस्य च कर्णिका ॥ ७५.४० ॥
avyaktā dhātavaḥ sarve samutpannā jalādayaḥ | avyaktāt pṛthivīpadmaṃ merus tasya ca karṇikā || 75.40 ||
सब चीज़ें पहले छुपी हुई थी, फिर पानी और बाकी सब बना। उस छुपी से ज़मीन एक कमल की तरह निकली। मेरु पर्वत उस कमल का बीज है।
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmogonic model in which the manifest world emerges from an unmanifest principle (avyakta), using the lotus as a schematic image for the Earth and positioning Meru as the central axis—an idea influential in classical South Asian cosmography.
Mount Meru is named as the central feature. In Purāṇic geography it functions as a cosmological axis (not a securely identifiable single modern mountain), though it has been compared in scholarship to various Himalayan and trans-Himalayan symbolic referents.
The verse primarily conveys a philosophical cosmology rather than a direct moral injunction; indirectly, it frames Earth as an ordered, structured entity, supporting later Purāṇic discussions of stewardship and reverence for terrestrial geography as cultural heritage.
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