Shloka 44
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
प्राग्ज्योतिषाश्च मद्राश्च विदेहास्ताम्रलिप्तकाः । मल्ला मगधगोमन्ताः प्राच्या जनपदाः स्मृताः ॥
prāgjyotiṣāśca madrāśca videhāstāmraliptakāḥ / mallā magadhagomantāḥ prācyā janapadāḥ smṛtāḥ
प्राग्ज्योतिषं मद्राश्चैव विदेहास्ताम्रलिप्तकाः; मल्ला मगधाः गोमन्ताश्च—एते प्राचीदेशाः स्मृताः।
{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }
FAQs
By anchoring sacred history in identifiable places (Videha, Magadha, etc.), the Purāṇa ties dharma and memory to the landscape, making geography a vessel of tradition.
Best classed as cosmography/earth-description (bhū-varṇana), which commonly accompanies vaṃśa and vaṃśānucarita sections.
Named regions become ‘mandalas’ of memory—nodes in a sacred network where stories, rituals, and identities can be situated and retrieved.