Varaha Purana 76.5: Adhyaya 76, Shloka 5
Description of Svarga: Amarāvatī, the Sudharmā Assembly Hall, and the Directional Cities
देवैर्यक्षोप्सरोभिश्च ऋषिभिश्च सुषोभिता । पुरन्दरपुरी रम्या समृद्धा त्वमरावती ॥ ७६.५ ॥
devair yakṣāpsarobhiś ca ṛṣibhiś ca suśobhitā | purandara-purī ramyā samṛddhā tv amarāvatī || 76.5 ||
ദേവന്മാർ, യക്ഷന്മാർ, അപ്സരസ്സുകൾ, ഋഷിമാർ എന്നിവരാൽ സുഷോഭിതമായ ആ രമ്യമായ പുരന്ദരപുരി—നീ തന്നെയാണ് അമരാവതി—സമൃദ്ധിയും ഐശ്വര്യവും നിറഞ്ഞതാണ്।
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FAQs
It preserves a Purāṇic literary motif: the idealized, cosmological capital (Amarāvatī/Indra’s city) described through its illustrious inhabitants, reflecting how Sanskrit texts encode cultural geography and royal-urban imagination.
Amarāvatī (also called Purandara-purī) is primarily a cosmological locale—the city of Indra—rather than a single securely identified historical city; later traditions sometimes map such names onto regional toponyms, but the verse itself presents it as a celestial/idealized capital.
The verse is chiefly descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical emphasis is on the ideal of a well-ordered, prosperous habitation marked by the presence of learned and refined beings (ṛṣis, divine and semi-divine figures), a common Purāṇic value-signaling device.
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