Varaha Purana 77.16: Adhyaya 77, Shloka 16
Measurements of Mount Meru, the Boundary Mountains, and the Four Directional Great Trees
तेन चालोकितं वर्षं सर्वद्विपदनायकाः । यस्य नाम्ना समाख्यातो भद्राश्वेति न संशयः ॥ ७७.१६ ॥
tena cālokitaṁ varṣaṁ sarvadvipadanāyakāḥ | yasya nāmnā samākhyāto bhadrāśveti na saṁśayaḥ || 77.16 ||
हरि ने उस जगह को देखा। वो जगह सब लोगों को पता है। उसी के नाम से इस जगह को भद्राश्व कहते हैं। इसमें कोई शक नहीं है।
Varāha
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It preserves a Purāṇic toponym (Bhadrāśva) within a catalog of regions (varṣas), illustrating how names are explained through eponymy—linking place-names to a figure’s name in the narrative tradition.
The verse identifies “Bhadrāśva” as a named varṣa (region) in Purāṇic cosmography; modern scholarship generally treats such varṣas as part of a mytho-geographical schema rather than a single unambiguous modern map location.
No direct ethical injunction is stated; the verse primarily functions as a geographic-etymological note, supporting cultural memory of place-names and the ordering of inhabited regions.
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