Varaha Purana 75.60: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 60
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
भद्राश्वो भारतश्चैव केतुमालश्च पश्चिमे । उत्तरे कुरवश्चैव कृतपुण्यप्रतिश्रयाः ॥ ७५.६० ॥
bhadrāśvo bhārataś caiva ketumālaś ca paścime | uttare kuravaś caiva kṛtapuṇyapratiśrayāḥ || 75.60 ||
भद्राश्व और भारत, और वेस्ट में केतुमल। नॉर्थ में कुरु लोग रहते हैं। यह सब जगह उनके लिए है जिन्होंने अच्छे करम किए हैं।
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FAQs
It reflects Purāṇic cosmography by naming major regions (varṣas) and framing them as culturally meaningful spaces associated with merit, a common feature of early medieval Sanskrit encyclopedic literature.
Bhārata is the most historically grounded term, commonly identified by scholars with the Indian subcontinent (Bhārata-varṣa) in Purāṇic geography; the other names (Bhadrāśva, Ketumāla, Uttara Kuru) function primarily within the broader cosmographic schema of Jambūdvīpa.
The verse associates “acquired merit” (kṛtapuṇya) with attaining supportive abodes (pratiśraya), expressing a moral-cosmological linkage between virtuous action and favorable existential conditions.
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