Varaha Purana 78.8: Adhyaya 78, Shloka 8
Names of the Four Directional Mountain-Kings and Their Lakes
Rudra’s Geographical Description
कमलोत्पलकह्लारशोभितानि सरांसि च । चतुर्षु तेषु गिरिषु नानागुणयुतेषु च ॥ ७८.८ ॥
kamalotpalakahlāraśobhitāni sarāṃsi ca | caturṣu teṣu giriṣu nānāguṇayuteṣu ca || 78.8 ||
तालाब थे जहाँ कमल और नीले कमल खिले थे। सफेद कमल भी था। चार पहाड़ थे वहाँ, अलग अलग गुण वाले।
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic mode of cataloguing culturally valued landscapes—mountains and waterbodies—using botanical markers (lotus species) that also function as aesthetic and ecological descriptors in Sanskrit literature.
No specific toponym is given in this verse alone; it references 'those four mountains' (caturṣu teṣu giriṣu), which must be identified from the surrounding verses of Adhyāya 78.
The verse primarily offers descriptive sacred-ecological geography rather than a direct moral injunction; implicitly, it foregrounds the cultural value of well-formed waterbodies and biodiverse landscapes.
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