Varaha Purana 82.7: Adhyaya 82, Shloka 7
The Descent of the Rivers: The Sky-Gaṅgā and Her Fourfold Division
सा च मेरुकूटतटान्तेभ्यः प्रस्कलिता चतुर्धा संजाता ।
sā ca merukūṭataṭāntebhyaḥ praskhalitā caturdhā saṁjātā |
यह नदी मेरु के पहाड़ के किनारे से नीचे गिरी। फिर वो चार हिस्सों में बाँट गई।
Rudra
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Fourfold river division is a recurring Purāṇic motif that organizes world-space into directional hydrological systems, shaping later sacred-geographic imagination.
Meru’s peaks (merukūṭa) are referenced within cosmological geography; no direct modern terrestrial identification is fixed.
Not an injunction; the verse contributes to a systemic view of waters as structured, originating from a central axis, which can inform heritage-oriented respect for waterways.
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