Varaha Purana 77.20: Adhyaya 77, Shloka 20
Measurements of Mount Meru, the Boundary Mountains, and the Four Directional Great Trees
तत्र जाम्बूनदं नाम सुवर्णमनलप्रभम् । देवालङ्कारमतुलमुत्पन्नं पापनाशनम् ॥ ७७.२० ॥
tatra jāmbūnadaṃ nāma suvarṇam analaprabhām | devālaṅkāram atulam utpannaṃ pāpanāśanam || 77.20 ||
वहाँ एक सोना मिलता है जिसे जम्बूनद कहते हैं। यह आग जैसा चमकता है। देव लोग इस्से अपने गहने बनाते हैं। इस्से कोई भी पाप नहीं रहता।
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It preserves a Purāṇic description of jāmbūnada—an idealized, culturally significant form of gold—linking material splendour with the text’s broader discourse on sacred places and moral purification.
The verse uses the deictic “tatra” (“there”) but does not name a specific location in this fragment; identification depends on the immediately preceding or following verses in Adhyāya 77.
The line associates certain auspicious phenomena (here, the arising of a revered substance) with the idea of pāpa-nāśana—moral purification—framing ethical restoration as part of the chapter’s sacred-geographic narrative.
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