Varaha Purana 77.13: Adhyaya 77, Shloka 13
Measurements of Mount Meru, the Boundary Mountains, and the Four Directional Great Trees
समासेन परिवृतो भुवनैर्भूतभावनैः । सहस्रमधिकं सोऽथ गन्धेनापूरयन् दिशः ॥ ७७.१३ ॥
samāsena parivṛto bhuvanair bhūtabhāvanaiḥ | sahasram adhikaṃ so 'tha gandhenāpūrayan diśaḥ || 77.13 ||
सामने देखो, वो सब तरफ से घेरा हुआ था। सारी दुनिया उसके पास थी। फिर उसकी खुशबू इतनी फैली कि हज़ार से भी ज़्यादा जगह भरगयी।
Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in fragment)
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It exemplifies Purāṇic descriptive technique, combining cosmological scale (bhuvana) with sensory imagery (gandha) to frame a narrative moment in an expansive, world-oriented register typical of early medieval Sanskrit compendia.
No specific toponym or pilgrimage site is named in this verse fragment; the reference is directional (diśaḥ) and cosmological (bhuvana) rather than locational.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; implicitly, it reflects a worldview where worlds are characterized as sustaining life (bhūtabhāvana), aligning with a broader Purāṇic valuation of life-supporting order.
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