Shloka 12
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
यथा च क्षितिसंस्थानं यत् प्रमाणञ्च वै भुवः ।
यथास्थिति समुद्राद्रि-निम्नगाः काननानि च ॥
yathā ca kṣitisaṃsthānaṃ yat pramāṇaṃ ca vai bhuvaḥ | yathāsthiti samudrādri-nimnagāḥ kānanāni ca ||
पृथिव्याः संनिवेशः कः, प्रमाणं चास्य किं पुनः; समुद्र-पर्वत-नदी-वनानां च व्यवस्था कथं—एतद् ब्रूहि।
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FAQs
Sacred cosmography is not mere cartography; it frames the world as an ordered field for dharma, pilgrimage, and ritual orientation, linking place with purpose.
Supports sarga/pratisarga exposition by detailing the structured world that emerges within creation; though not a separate lakṣaṇa, it is standard purāṇic cosmographical elaboration.
Oceans, mountains, and rivers can be read as inner terrains: depths of emotion (samudra), stabilizing principles (adri), and flowing prāṇa/insight currents (nimnagā).