Varaha Purana 77.6: Adhyaya 77, Shloka 6
Measurements of Mount Meru, the Boundary Mountains, and the Four Directional Great Trees
महापादास्तु चत्वारो मेरोरथ चतुर्दिशम् । यैर्न चचाल विष्टब्धा सप्तद्वीपवती मही ॥ ७७.६ ॥
mahāpādāstu catvāro meror atha caturdiśam | yair na cacāla viṣṭabdhā saptadvīpavatī mahī || 77.6 ||
मेरु के चार बड़े स्तंभ हैं चार दिशाओं में। इनके कारण धरती हिली नहीं। सात द्वीप वाली धरती पकड़ी हुई थी।
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmographic model in which Mount Meru functions as the central axis, with structural supports stabilizing the inhabited world (bhū-maṇḍala), reflecting premodern Indian geographic and cosmological imagination.
Mount Meru is named; in scholarship it is generally treated as a mythic cosmological axis rather than a single securely identifiable modern mountain, though it is sometimes compared (speculatively) with high Himalayan or Central Asian ranges in comparative studies.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical emphasis is on cosmic order and stability—an implied framework used elsewhere in Purāṇic literature to ground reflections on stewardship of the Earth and the maintenance of dharmic order.
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