Shloka 30
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
कम्बोजाः पहलवाश्चैव तथैव वहवामुखाः ।
तथा च सिन्धुसौवीराः सानर्ता वनितामुखाः ॥
kāmbojāḥ pahlavāś caiva tathaiva vahavāmukhāḥ | tathā ca sindhu-sauvīrāḥ sānartā vanitāmukhāḥ ||
Os Kāmbojas e os Pahlavas; do mesmo modo os Vahavāmukhas; e também os Sindhu‑Sauvīras, os Ānartas e os Vanitāmukhas são enumerados.
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FAQs
By listing frontier and ‘foreign’ groups, the Purāṇa depicts Bhārata’s world as porous and interconnected—politically and culturally—rather than isolated.
Bhū-varṇana (geographical description), an auxiliary Purāṇic layer.
The inclusion of distant peoples can symbolize the extension of cosmic order to the margins—dharma as a universalizing principle.