Varaha Purana 86.23: Adhyaya 86, Shloka 23
Description of Śākadvīpa and Kuśadvīpa
Cosmographic Geography
तस्मिन्सिद्धा इति कीर्तिताः प्रजानेकविधाः क्रीडन्तस्तस्यापरे रजतो नाम गिरिः सैव शाकोच्यते॥
tasmin siddhā iti kīrtitāḥ prajānekavidhāḥ krīḍantas tasyāpare rajato nāma giriḥ saiva śāko 'cyate
वहाँ लोग सिद्ध कहते हैं, बहुत तरह के। वो वहाँ खेलते रहते हैं। उसके बाद एक पहाड़ है जिसका नाम रजत है। उसी को शाक भी कहते हैं।
Varāha
FAQs
It combines ethnographic labeling (‘Siddhas’) with toponymy, a typical Purāṇic technique for sacralizing and systematizing imagined geographies.
Rajata/Śāka mountain and a locale inhabited by ‘Siddhas’ within Kūśadvīpa; these remain primarily cosmographic entities.
No explicit moral directive; the text presents a structured world populated by distinct classes of beings.
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