Varaha Purana 75.6: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 6
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
नव वर्षं प्रवक्ष्यामि जम्बूद्वीपं यथातथम् । विस्तारान्मण्डलाच्चैव योजनैस्तन्निबोधत ॥ ७५.६ ॥
nava varṣaṃ pravakṣyāmi jambūdvīpaṃ yathātatham | vistārān maṇḍalāc caiva yojanais tan nibodhata || 75.6 ||
ഇപ്പോൾ ഞാൻ ജംബൂദ്വീപിലെ ഒമ്പത് വർഷങ്ങളെ യഥാതഥമായി പ്രസ്താവിക്കുന്നു—അതിന്റെ വ്യാപ്തി, മണ്ഡലാകാര രൂപം, യോജനാപരിമാണം എന്നിവ; അതിനാൽ ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ ഗ്രഹിക്കുവിൻ।
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It introduces a structured Purāṇic geographic-cosmological exposition, signaling an attempt to systematize the world into named regions with conventional measures (yojanas), useful for studying premodern South Asian models of space and cartographic imagination.
Jambūdvīpa is named—the central dvīpa in Purāṇic cosmography, often treated in scholarship as a mytho-geographic framework that integrates known regions with symbolic continental divisions rather than a one-to-one modern map location.
The verse primarily functions as a methodological instruction—an invitation to attentive learning and accurate understanding—rather than a direct moral rule; it frames knowledge transmission with an emphasis on clarity, measurement, and orderly description.
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