Varaha Purana 76.10: Adhyaya 76, Shloka 10
Description of Svarga: Amarāvatī, the Sudharmā Assembly Hall, and the Directional Cities
तत्तद्गुणवती रम्या पुरी वैवस्वतस्य च । नाम्ना संयमनी नाम पुरी त्रैलोक्यविश्रुता ॥ ७६.१० ॥
tattadguṇavatī ramyā purī vaivasvatasya ca | nāmnā saṃyamanī nāma purī trailokyaviśrutā || 76.10 ||
एक और अच्छी शहर है वहाँ। उसमें भी सारे गुण हैं। यह यमराज की शहर है। इसका नाम संयमनी है। तीनों दुनिया में इसकी बड़ाई है।
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It preserves a Purāṇic toponym—Saṃyamanī—associated with Vaivasvata (Yama), illustrating how Purāṇic literature maps moral-cosmological ideas onto named places within a three-world (trailokya) framework.
Saṃyamanī is identified as the city of Vaivasvata (Yama). In scholarship it is typically treated as a cosmographic/puranic locale rather than a securely pinpointed terrestrial site.
The verse does not issue a direct ethical injunction; instead, it situates the narrative within a moral-cosmological geography by naming a renowned city linked to Yama, a figure associated with order and judgment.
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