Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 59, Shloka 5
Adhyaya 59 — Cosmic Geography and Yuga-Order: Bhadrashva, Ketumala, and the Northern Kuru Region
कौरञ्जः पर्णशालाग्रः पञ्चैते तु कुलाचलाः ।
तेषां प्रसूतिरन्ये ये बहवः क्षुद्रपर्वताः ॥
kaurañjaḥ parṇaśālāgraḥ pañcaite tu kulācalāḥ / teṣāṃ prasūtir anye ye bahavaḥ kṣudraparvatāḥ
ಕೌರಂಜ ಮತ್ತು ಪರ್ಣಶಾಲಾಗ್ರ—ಇವು (ಹಿಂದೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ಪರ್ವತಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ) ಐದು ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕುಲಾಚಲಗಳು. ಅವುಗಳಿಂದ ಅನೇಕ ಇತರ ಸಣ್ಣ ಗುಡ್ಡಗಳು ಹುಟ್ಟುತ್ತವೆ.
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FAQs
The hierarchy of mountains mirrors Purāṇic ideas of lineage and derivation: major supports generate secondary forms—an analog to how primary principles yield many particulars.
Cosmographical detailing functions as a supporting layer for 'Sarga/Pratisarga' (world-structure) rather than direct 'Vaṃśa' genealogy.
‘Kulācalas’ can be read as archetypal stabilizers (inner ‘supports’ of practice); ‘kṣudra’ hills represent the proliferating sub-structures of experience arising from core foundations.
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