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Description of the Māhātmya of Gokarṇeśvara and Jaleśvara (Śaileśvara) in the Śleṣmātaka Forest
तदा स देशो भविता सर्वम्लेच्छैरधिष्ठितः ॥ ततोऽन्ये सूर्यवंशीया क्षत्रियास्तान्निहत्य च ॥
tadā sa deśo bhavitā sarvamlecchair adhiṣṭhitaḥ | tato ’nye sūryavaṁśīyāḥ kṣatriyās tān nihatya ca ||
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It reflects a Purāṇic way of narrating political change through broad ethnonyms; historians treat such terms cautiously as literary and context-dependent.
‘That land’ refers back to the Nepāla/Himavat setting established nearby in the chapter.
Rather than a prescriptive ethic, the verse functions as narrative forecasting; ethically, it invites careful, non-anachronistic reading of group labels.
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