Varaha Purana 75.76: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 76
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
नैकरत्नसमावासे मणितोरणमन्दिरे । मेरोः सर्वेषु पार्श्वेषु समन्तात् परिमण्डले ॥ ७५.७६ ॥
naikaratnasamāvāse maṇitoraṇamandire | meroḥ sarveṣu pārśveṣu samantāt parimaṇḍale || 75.76 ||
Num lugar de habitação repleto de muitas espécies de gemas—num palácio adornado com pórticos de joias—em todos os lados do monte Meru, por toda a volta, numa extensão circular.
Varāha (default, instructor voice in Varāha–Pṛthivī dialogue framework)
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It reflects a standard Purāṇic cosmographic idiom in which Mount Meru is framed as a central axis surrounded by idealized, gem-like architecture—useful for studying how early Sanskrit texts map sacred space through poetic material culture.
Mount Meru (Meru) is identified; in scholarship it is generally treated as a mythic-cosmological axis mundi rather than a single empirically fixed mountain, though it is sometimes compared (non-identically) with Himalayan or Central Asian highland imaginaries.
No direct ethical injunction is stated in this fragment; its primary function is descriptive, contributing to a broader Purāṇic worldview where ordered space and cultural heritage imagery (mandiras, toraṇas) symbolize cosmic harmony.
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