Varaha Purana 144.175: Adhyaya 144, Shloka 175
The Māhātmya of Someśvara and Related Liṅgas: The Liberation-Field of Triveṇī and the Śālagrāma Sacred Landscape
तस्यैव पूर्वदिग्भागे हंसतीर्थमिति स्मृतम् ॥ तत्रैकं कौतुकं वृत्तं तच्छृणुष्व महत्तरम् ॥
tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge haṃsatīrtham iti smṛtam | tatraikaṃ kautukaṃ vṛttaṃ tac chṛṇuṣva mahattaram ||
അതേ സ്ഥലത്തിന്റെ കിഴക്കുഭാഗത്ത് ‘ഹംസതീർത്ഥം’ എന്നു സ്മരിക്കപ്പെടുന്ന തീർത്ഥമുണ്ട്. അവിടെ ഒരു അത്ഭുത സംഭവം നടന്നു—അതിലും മഹത്തായതു കേൾക്കുക।
Varāha
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It introduces a named tīrtha (Haṃsatīrtha) and frames the following passage as an etiological narrative explaining how a sacred place-name and reputation are established in Purāṇic literature.
Haṃsatīrtha is identified as lying in the eastern sector of the previously described sacred region; the passage itself does not provide a modern identification.
The verse primarily functions as a narrative preface, encouraging attentive listening to a culturally significant account tied to place-memory and sacred geography.
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