Varaha Purana 157.46: Adhyaya 157, Shloka 46
Praise of the Malayārjuna Sacred Ford and the Mathurā-Yamunā Pilgrimage Cycle
तत्र स्नातो नरो याति मम लोकं न संशयः ॥ अस्ति भाण्डह्रदं नाम परपारेषु दुर्लभम् ॥
tatra snāto naro yāti mama lokaṃ na saṃśayaḥ || asti bhāṇḍahradaṃ nāma parapāreṣu durllabham
അവിടെ സ്നാനം ചെയ്യുന്ന മനുഷ്യൻ സംശയമില്ലാതെ എന്റെ ലോകത്തെ പ്രാപിക്കുന്നു. അവിടെ ‘ഭാണ്ഡഹ്രദം’ എന്നൊരു തടാകമുണ്ട്; അപ്പുറത്തീരങ്ങളിൽ അത് ദുർലഭമാണ്.
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The verse exemplifies Purāṇic cataloging of named waterbodies (hrada) as cultural heritage markers, embedding them in a soteriological narrative of pilgrimage.
Bhāṇḍahrada is named as a lake; its precise modern identification is uncertain without corroborating regional toponymy and manuscript traditions.
It encourages purification practices (bathing) and frames them as meaningful within a broader moral-cosmological order.
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