Varaha Purana 75.39: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 39
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
परिमण्डलस्तयोर्मध्ये मेरुः कनकपर्वतः । चतुर्वर्णः ससौवर्णश्चतुरस्त्रः समुच्छ्रितः ॥ ७५.३९ ॥
parimaṇḍalas tayor madhye meruḥ kanakaparvataḥ | caturvarṇaḥ sasauvarṇaś caturastraḥ samucchritaḥ || 75.39 ||
അവയുടെ മദ്ധ്യേ വൃത്താകാരമായ ‘കനകപർവത’ മേരുവുണ്ട്—നാലുവർണ്ണങ്ങളോടെ, സ്വർണപ്രഭയോടെ, നാലുവശങ്ങളോടെ, അത്യുച്ചമായി ഉയർന്നത്।
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It preserves a standard Purāṇic cosmographical motif—Mount Meru as the central axis of the world—useful for studying how premodern Sanskrit texts conceptualized sacred geography and cosmic space.
Mount Meru is a cosmological (mythic) central mountain rather than a single empirically fixed site; scholars discuss its connections to broader Indo-Asian axis-mundi traditions rather than equating it straightforwardly with one modern mountain.
The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to situate human and terrestrial realms within an ordered cosmic geography, a framework often used elsewhere in Purāṇas to ground cultural memory and place-based stewardship.
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