Varaha Purana 9.18: Adhyaya 9, Shloka 18
The Sequence of Creation, the Emergence of the Praṇava, and the Fish Incarnation’s Retrieval of the Vedas
चतुर्विधैस्तु भूरलोकं भुवर्लोकं वियच्छरैः । भूतैः स्वर्मार्गगैरन्यैः स्वर्लोकं समपूरयत् ॥ ९.१८ ॥
caturvidhaistu bhūrlokaṁ bhuvarlokaṁ viyaccharaiḥ | bhūtaiḥ svarmārgagair anyaiḥ svarlokaṁ samapūrayat || 9.18 ||
നാലുവിധ ജീവികളാൽ അദ്ദേഹം ഭൂർലോകവും ഭുവർലോകവും നിറച്ചു; സ്വർഗ്ഗമാർഗ്ഗഗാമികളായ മറ്റു ജീവികളാൽ സ്വർലോകവും പൂർണ്ണമായി പരിപൂരണമാക്കി।
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It reflects a common Purāṇic cosmological model that organizes existence into layered worlds (loka-s), providing a literary framework used in South Asian intellectual history for describing space, beings, and cosmic order.
No single terrestrial site is named; the verse instead references cosmographic realms—Bhūrloka (earth), Bhuvarloka (mid-region/atmosphere), and Svarloka (heaven)—as conceptual locations in Purāṇic cosmology.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the verse conveys an organizing principle: life is distributed across distinct ecological/cosmic zones, implying an ordered cosmos where different beings properly inhabit different realms.
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