Varaha Purana 86.51: Adhyaya 86, Shloka 51
Description of Śākadvīpa and Kuśadvīpa
Cosmographic Geography
शाकद्वीपो द्विगुणः संनिविष्टश्च कथितः ।
śākadvīpo dviguṇaḥ saṃniviṣṭaś ca kathitaḥ |
शाकद्वीप इसका डबल साइज़ का है। ऐसे ही बना हुआ है।
Varāha
FAQs
It encodes a proportional cosmographic rule (dviguṇa, ‘double’), a key feature for reconstructing Purāṇic world-model scaling.
Śākadvīpa, a mytho-geographic continent in Purāṇic cosmology.
None explicit; the verse is quantitative-descriptive.
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