Varaha Purana 81.85: Adhyaya 81, Shloka 85
Description of the Divine Mountain Abodes: Meru, Devakūṭa, and Kailāsa
पूर्वे नारायणस्यायतनम् ।
pūrve nārāyaṇasyāyatanam
കിഴക്കായി നാരായണന്റെ ആലയം സ്ഥിതിചെയ്യുന്നു।
Varāha (default, speaker not explicit in fragment)
FAQs
It shows a schematic, direction-based organization of sacred space—common in South Asian textual geographies and pilgrimage literature.
Only a directional placement (“east”) is given; the broader chapter context is needed to anchor it to a specific region.
It encourages attentiveness to culturally encoded spatial order, relevant to documenting and preserving heritage landscapes.
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