Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 12
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
तथा चन्द्रेश्वराश्चैव खशाश्च मगधास्तथा ।
गिरयो मैथिलाः शुभ्रास्तथा वदनदन्तुराः ॥
tathā candreśvarāś caiva khaśāś ca magadhās tathā | girayo maithilāḥ śubhrās tathā vadanadanturāḥ ||
同様に、チャンドレーシュヴァラ族、カサ族、さらにマガダ族があり、諸山岳、肌の明るいマイティラ族、そしてヴァダナダントゥラ族もいる。
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FAQs
The Purāṇa’s ‘world’ is simultaneously physical and cultural: peoples and mountains are listed in one breath. This encourages a worldview where human society and nature are co-ordered parts of dharma’s arena.
Sthiti—description of the world’s arrangement and its inhabitants.
Pairing ethnonyms with ‘girayaḥ’ suggests that human traits and natural forms mirror each other within the cosmic body. The ‘śubhra’ epithet may encode auspicious valuation of certain regions within the omen-oriented mapping.