Varaha Purana 159.22: Adhyaya 159, Shloka 22
The Procedure and Merit of Circumambulating Mathurā
अन्तरा भ्रमणेनैव सुग्रीवेण महात्मना ॥ तथा च पूर्वं देवेन्द्रैः पञ्चभिः पाण्डुनन्दनैः।
antarā bhramaṇenaiva sugrīveṇa mahātmanā || tathā ca pūrvaṁ devendraiḥ pañcabhiḥ pāṇḍunandanaiḥ
अन्तरा-प्रदक्षिणया एव महात्मना सुग्रीवेण कृतम्; तथा पूर्वं देवेन्द्रैः पञ्चभिः पाण्डुनन्दनैश्च कृतम्।
Varāha (default framework; passage continues without explicit re-citation of speaker)
FAQs
It uses exemplary figures (Sugrīva; the Pāṇḍavas) to authorize a pilgrimage practice, a typical Purāṇic method for embedding ritual geography in epic memory.
The implied setting is Mathurā and its circumambulatory route (parikramā), a mapped sacred landscape in North Indian pilgrimage tradition.
The ethical emphasis is on emulation of exemplary conduct—undertaking disciplined movement through a sacred landscape as a form of self-cultivation.
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