Varaha Purana 52.3: Adhyaya 52, Shloka 3
The Genealogy of Trivarṇa, Manohvā, and the Akṣa Lineage, with the Construction of the Nine-Gated City
तस्यापि सर्वरूपाः स्युः स्तनयाः पञ्चभोगिनः । यथासंख्येन पुत्रास्तु तेषामक्षाभिधानकाः ॥ ५२.३ ॥
tasyāpi sarvarūpāḥ syus stanayāḥ pañcabhoginaḥ | yathāsaṃkhyena putrāstu teṣām akṣābhidhānakāḥ || 52.3 ||
അവനുമെല്ലാ രൂപങ്ങളിലുമുള്ള അഞ്ചു പുത്രന്മാർ ഉണ്ടായി; അവർ ‘പഞ്ചഭോഗികൾ’ എന്നു പ്രസിദ്ധർ. ക്രമാനുസരിച്ച് അവരുടെ പുത്രന്മാർ ‘അക്ഷ’ എന്ന നാമധേയത്തോടെ അറിയപ്പെട്ടു.
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It reflects a common Purāṇic archival practice: preserving lineages and group-designations (gaṇa-style labels) that function as cultural memory and textual indexing within mytho-historical narration.
No explicit geographic toponym appears in this verse; it is primarily genealogical/onomastic rather than a sacred-geography passage.
No direct ethical injunction is stated; the verse primarily documents lineage structure and naming conventions, which serve a cultural-historical and classificatory function in the text.
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