Shloka 27
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
पादविनिष्क्रान्ता इत्येताḥ सरिदुत्तमाः ।
कृतमाला ताम्रपर्णो पुष्पजा सूत्पलावती ॥
(sahya) (vindhya) pādaviniṣkrāntā ityetāḥ sariduttamāḥ /
kṛtamālā tāmraparṇo puṣpajā sūtpalāvatī //
एता नद्यः श्रेष्ठा इति कथ्यन्ते, सह्यविन्ध्यादिपर्वतानां पादेभ्यः प्रसृता इव; कृतमाला ताम्रपर्णा पुष्पजा सूत्पलावती च।
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FAQs
By tracing rivers to mountain ‘feet,’ the text frames nature as ordered and venerable; it reinforces gratitude and restraint toward water sources—an implicit environmental dharma.
This is ancillary geographical material (kṣetra/tīrtha enumeration), commonly embedded in Purāṇas to support dharma and pilgrimage, not a direct instance of sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṁśa/vaṁśānucarita.
‘From the feet’ suggests humility and service: sacred waters arise from the ‘lowest’ point of the mountain, symbolizing that purity and beneficence often emerge from groundedness rather than prominence.