Varaha Purana 81.26: Adhyaya 81, Shloka 26
Description of the Divine Mountain Abodes: Meru, Devakūṭa, and Kailāsa
गजपर्वते च महाभूतपरिवृता स्वयमेव भगवती तिष्ठति ।
gajaparvate ca mahābhūtaparivṛtā svayam eva bhagavatī tiṣṭhati
गजपर्वत नाम का पहाड़ है। वहाँ भगवती खुद रहती हैं। पाँच बड़े तत्व उनके पास हैं।
Varāha
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It links a named mountain to a cosmological framework (mahābhūtas), indicating how geography and elemental theory are integrated in Purāṇic descriptions.
Gajaparvata is identified as a mountain; its modern identification cannot be fixed from the isolated verse.
By presenting the mountain as encompassed by the great elements, the verse implicitly foregrounds the interdependence of landscape and elemental balance—supportive of ecological respect.
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