Varaha Purana 80.7: Adhyaya 80, Shloka 7
Cosmographic Ordering of the Southern and Western Quarters: Valleys, Forest-Plateaus, and Sacred Sites
तत्र चादित्यस्य देवस्य महदायतनम् । समासे मासे च भगवानवतारति सूर्यः प्रजापतिः । कालजनकं देवाऽऽदयो नमस्यन्ति । तथा च पञ्चकूटस्य कैलासस्य चान्तरे सहस्रयोजनायामं विस्तीर्णं शतयोजनं हंसपाण्डुरं क्षुद्रसत्त्वैरनाधृष्यं स्वर्गसोपानमिव भूमण्डलम् ॥७॥
tatra cādityasya devasya mahadāyatanaṃ | samāse māse ca bhagavān avatarati sūryaḥ prajāpatiḥ | kālajanakaṃ devādayo namasyanti | tathā ca pañcakūṭasya kailāsasya cāntare sahasrayojanāyāmaṃ vistīrṇaṃ śatayojanaṃ haṃsapāṇḍuraṃ kṣudrasattvair anādhṛṣyaṃ svargasopānam iva bhūmaṇḍalam ||7||
Di sana terdapat sebuah ayatan (tempat suci) yang besar bagi dewa Āditya. Pada pertemuan musim dan pada setiap bulan, Bhagavān Sūrya—Prajāpati, penguasa keturunan—dikatakan menzahirkan diri. Para dewa dan makhluk lain menunduk hormat kepadanya sebagai pencetus kala (waktu). Dan lagi, di antara Pañcakūṭa dan Kailāsa terbentang suatu wilayah bumi: panjang seribu yojana dan lebar seratus yojana, putih laksana angsa, tidak dapat ditembusi oleh makhluk kecil, seolah-olah tangga menuju syurga di atas permukaan dunia.
Varāha (default dialogic frame; speaker not explicit in the excerpt)
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The verse preserves a Purāṇic model of sacred geography in which solar worship (Āditya/Sūrya) is linked to calendrical time (kāla) and to mapped pilgrimage landscapes described with yojana-based dimensions, reflecting early medieval Indian textual cartographies.
A region described as lying ‘between Pañcakūṭa and Kailāsa’ is indicated; Kailāsa is traditionally associated with the trans-Himalayan sacred complex, while ‘Pañcakūṭa’ likely denotes a nearby multi-peaked massif/toponym attested in Purāṇic and later pilgrimage literature, though exact modern identification varies across scholarly proposals.
Rather than a direct moral injunction, the passage advances a philosophical instruction of reverent orientation toward cosmic order: Sūrya as ‘generator of time’ is honored, and the landscape is framed as a protected, elevated heritage space—implicitly encouraging respectful conduct toward sacred environments.
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