Varaha Purana 86.45: Adhyaya 86, Shloka 45
Description of Śākadvīpa and Kuśadvīpa
Cosmographic Geography
चतुर्थी ह्रादिनी नाम सैव चन्द्रा निगद्यते ।
caturthī hrādinī nāma saiva candrā nigadyate
चौथा नाम ह्रादिनी है। यही नदी चंद्रा के नाम से भी जानी जाती है।
Varāha
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It preserves paired river names and descriptive semantics (cooling/delightful; moon-like), useful for cultural-linguistic studies of hydronyms.
A river known as Hrādinī and also as Candrā; no further localization is provided here.
None explicit; the verse’s role is archival naming of waterways.
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