Varaha Purana 78.8: Adhyaya 78, Shloka 8

Names of the Four Directional Mountain-Kings and Their Lakes

Rudra’s Geographical Description

Devanagari script

कमलोत्पलकह्लारशोभितानि सरांसि च । चतुर्षु तेषु गिरिषु नानागुणयुतेषु च ॥ ७८.८ ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 78.8

Transliteration

kamalotpalakahlāraśobhitāni sarāṃsi ca | caturṣu teṣu giriṣu nānāguṇayuteṣu ca || 78.8 ||

Translation

Dan terdapat tasik-tasik yang dihiasi teratai, utpala (teratai biru) dan kahlāra (lili air putih); dan pada keempat-empat gunung itu juga—yang dipenuhi pelbagai sifat dan keutamaan.

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Word by Word

• कमल-उत्पल-कह्लार-शोभितानि: adorned with lotuses, water-lilies, and kahlāra flowers
• कमल-उत्पल-कह्लार-शोभितानि: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कमल + उत्पल + कह्लार + शोभित (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘शोभित’ (क्त-प्रत्ययान्त) ‘adorned’; समासः—कमलैः उत्पलैः कह्लारैः शोभितानि इति तृतीया-तत्पुरुष (बहुपद)

• सरांसि: lakes
• सरांसि: Karta (कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सरस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक

• चतुर्षु: in four
• चतुर्षु: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘गिरिषु’ इत्यस्य विशेषणम्

• तेषु: in those
• तेषु: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; सर्वनाम

• गिरिषु: on/in the mountains
• गिरिषु: Adhikarana (अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: गिरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, बहुवचन

• नाना-गुण-युतेषु: endowed with various qualities
• नाना-गुण-युतेषु: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: नाना (अव्यय) + गुण + युत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी-विभक्ति, बहुवचन; ‘युत’ (क्त) ‘endowed’; समासः—नानाविधैः गुणैः युताः इति तृतीया-तत्पुरुष; ‘नाना’ = अव्यय-पूर्वपद

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; समुच्चयबोधक

Speaker

Varāha

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Purāṇic Sanskrit
• Ancient Geography
• Ecological Description

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It reflects a Purāṇic mode of cataloguing culturally valued landscapes—mountains and waterbodies—using botanical markers (lotus species) that also function as aesthetic and ecological descriptors in Sanskrit literature.

Which geographic location is identified?

No specific toponym is given in this verse alone; it references 'those four mountains' (caturṣu teṣu giriṣu), which must be identified from the surrounding verses of Adhyāya 78.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The verse primarily offers descriptive sacred-ecological geography rather than a direct moral injunction; implicitly, it foregrounds the cultural value of well-formed waterbodies and biodiverse landscapes.