Varaha Purana 82.9: Adhyaya 82, Shloka 9
The Descent of the Rivers: The Sky-Gaṅgā and Her Fourfold Division
सीता च अलकनन्दा चक्षुर्भद्रा चेति नामभिः।
sītā cālakanandā cakṣurbhadrā ceti nāmabhiḥ.
इन धाराओं के नाम हैं सीता, अलकनंदा और चक्षुर्भद्रा।
Varāha
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It preserves a catalog-style listing of river names, a common Purāṇic method for mapping sacred geography and regional memory.
Alakanandā is widely associated with a Himalayan river system in later and modern usage; the verse itself lists names without precise coordinates.
The text’s naming practice supports cultural heritage preservation by treating rivers as identifiable, remembered entities within a shared geographic imagination.
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