Varaha Purana 77.3: Adhyaya 77, Shloka 3
Measurements of Mount Meru, the Boundary Mountains, and the Four Directional Great Trees
तेषां गिरिसहस्राणामनेकानां महोच्छ्रयः । दिगष्टौ च पुनस्तस्य मर्यादापर्वताः शुभाः ॥ ७७.३ ॥
teṣāṃ girisahasrāṇām anekānāṃ mahocchrayaḥ | dig-aṣṭau ca punas tasya maryādā-parvatāḥ śubhāḥ || 77.3 ||
ആ അനേകം പർവ്വതസഹസ്രങ്ങളിൽ പലതിന്റെയും ഉയരം അത്യന്തം മഹത്തായിരിക്കുന്നു; പിന്നെയും അഷ്ടദിക്കുകളിലും ശുഭമായ മર્યാദാ-പർവ്വതങ്ങൾ അതിന്റെ അതിരുകൾ നിർണ്ണയിക്കുന്നു।
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It reflects a Purāṇic mode of describing space through cosmographic features—especially mountains functioning as natural boundaries—useful for studying premodern South Asian geographic imagination and regional delimitation.
No single named location is specified in this verse; it refers generally to a region/world-system whose limits are marked by boundary-mountains in the eight directions. Identification requires adjacent verses naming specific ranges or regions.
The verse does not state an explicit ethical injunction; its philosophical instruction is descriptive—presenting the world as ordered and bounded—supporting a cultural framework in which landscapes (mountains and directions) are treated as significant and worthy of careful delineation.
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