Varaha Purana 74.7: Adhyaya 74, Shloka 7
Measures of the Earth and the Cosmos: The Expansion of the Universe and the Division of Continents and Regions
तेषां वंशप्रसूत्याऽऽ तु भुक्तेयं भारती प्रजा । कृतत्रेतादियुक्त्या तु युगाख्या ह्येकसप्ततिः ॥ ७४.७ ॥
teṣāṃ vaṃśaprasūtyā tu bhukteyaṃ bhāratī prajā | kṛtatretādiyuktyā tu yugākhyā hy ekasaptatiḥ || 74.7 ||
ಅವರ ವಂಶಪ್ರಸೂತಿಯಿಂದ ಈ ಭಾರತೀ ಪ್ರಜೆ ಪೋಷಿತವಾಗಿ ಉಳಿದಿದೆ. ಕೃತ, ತ್ರೇತಾ ಮೊದಲಾದ ಯುಗವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯಂತೆ ಯುಗಸಂಜ್ಞೆ/ಗಣನೆ ‘ಎಪ್ಪತ್ತೊಂದು’ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲಾಗಿದೆ।
Varāha
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It reflects a Purāṇic method of linking social continuity (prajā sustained through lineage) with cosmological chronology (the sequencing and naming of yugas), a common historiographical strategy in Sanskrit narrative literature.
Bhārata (Bhārata-varṣa) is referenced as a cultural-geographical region; in scholarly usage it broadly corresponds to the Indian subcontinent as conceptualized in Purāṇic geography.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse conveys a philosophical instruction about continuity: communities endure through responsible succession (vaṃśaprasūti) within an ordered framework of time (yuga-krama).
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