Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 53, Shloka 18
Adhyaya 53 — Rudrasarga and the Measure of the Manvantaras: Svayambhuva Manu, Priyavrata’s Line, and the Seven Dvipas
शाल्मलेस्तु वपुष्मन्तं ज्योतिष्मन्तं कुशाह्वये ।
क्रौञ्चद्वीपे द्युतिमन्तं भव्यं शाकाह्वयेश्वरम् ॥
śālmalestu vapuṣmantaṃ jyotiṣmantaṃ kuśāhvaye |
krauñcadvīpe dyutimantaṃ bhavyaṃ śākāhvayeśvaram ||
ရှာလ္မလဒ္ဝီပ၌ ဝပုသ္မာန်ကို ခန့်အပ်하였다။ ကုရှဟု ခေါ်သော ဒ္ဝီပ၌ ဇျောတိသ္မာန်ကို ခန့်အပ်하였다။ ကရောင်္စဒ္ဝီပ၌ ဒျုတိမာန်ကို ခန့်အပ်하였다။ ထို့ပြင် ရှာကဟု ခေါ်သော ဒ္ဝီပ၏ အရှင်အဖြစ် ဘာဝျကို ခန့်အပ်하였다။
FAQs
The Purāṇa treats geography as a dharmic mandate: rulers are assigned to maintain order across differentiated realms, suggesting duty varies with domain.
Cosmography (bhūgola/bhuvana description) integrated with Vaṃśānucarita (rulers’ appointments).
The repeated ‘-āhvaya’ (named/called) underscores that naming is a form of ordering—language and authority together stabilize the cosmos in Purāṇic thought.