Varaha Purana 145.32: Adhyaya 145, Shloka 32
The Greatness of the Śālagrāma Sacred Region
मम तद्रोचते स्थानं गिरिकूटशिलोच्चये ॥ शालग्राम इति ख्यातं भक्तसंसारमोक्षणम् ॥
mama tadrocate sthānaṃ girikūṭaśilocchaye || śālagrāma iti khyātaṃ bhaktasaṃsāramokṣaṇam ||
എനിക്ക് ആ സ്ഥലം തന്നെയാണ് പ്രിയം—പർവ്വതശിഖരങ്ങളുടെയും പാറകളുടെയും ഉയർന്ന ഉയർച്ചയിൽ സ്ഥിതമായത്. അത് ‘ശാലഗ്രാമം’ എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധം; ഭക്തരെ സംസാരബന്ധത്തിൽ നിന്ന് മോചിപ്പിക്കുന്നതെന്ന് പറയപ്പെടുന്നു.
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It records Śālagrāma as a named sacred site within a Purāṇic tīrtha framework, reflecting how landscapes were mapped through devotional and ethical idioms.
Śālagrāma is identified as the place-name; in scholarship it is often associated with the Śālagrāma region linked to the Gandakī river tradition, though this verse alone provides only topographic cues.
The verse frames liberation as connected to disciplined devotion (bhakti), presented descriptively rather than as coercive obligation.
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