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।
Varāha
Varaha Avatara Context: {"is_varaha_focus":false}
Bhu Devi Dialogue: {"is_dialogue":false,"speaker_role":"instructor","bhu_devi_state":"curious"}
Mathura Mandala: {"is_mathura_related":false}
Dharma Shastra: {"has_dharma_rule":false}
Vrata Mahatmya: {"has_vrata":false}
Cosmic Boar Symbolism: {"has_symbolism":false}
Philosophical Teaching: {"has_teaching":true,"teaching_type":"cosmological ethics","core_concept":"Prosperity (samṛddhi) is portrayed as the fruit of a realm aligned with divine order, where sages and gods naturally gather.","practical_application":"Seek prosperity through dharmic alignment—hospitality to the virtuous, reverence to sages, and cultivation of arts that elevate (music/dance symbolized by apsarases)."}
Subject Matter: ["Sacred Geography","Cultural Heritage","Cosmology"]
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: shanta
Type: divine capital (svarga-loka nagarī)
Related Themes: Varāha Purāṇa 76.76.4 (festive auspicious cityscape); Varāha Purāṇa 76.76.6-7 (Sudharmā and Indra in Viṣṇu’s presence)
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Audio Atmosphere: {"recitation_mood":"majestic-festive","suggested_raga":"Kalyan (Yaman)","pace":"medium","voice_tone":"resonant, courtly"}
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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