Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 102
मेरोरुत्तरतस्तत्र वर्षं यद्धनुषाकृति । उत्तराः कुरवो लोके प्रख्याता ये यशस्विनि
meroruttaratastatra varṣaṃ yaddhanuṣākṛti | uttarāḥ kuravo loke prakhyātā ye yaśasvini
மேருவின் வடக்கில் வில்லின் வடிவமுடைய அந்த வர்ஷம் (நாடு) உள்ளது; அங்கே உலகில் புகழ்பெற்ற உத்தர குருக்கள் வாழ்கின்றனர், ஓ யசஸ்வினி தேவியே.
Īśvara (Śiva) as narrator
Scene: A narrator points northward beyond Mount Meru to a bow-shaped land where the famed Uttara Kurus dwell; the scene is a mythic map made visible—Meru at center, luminous northern expanse beyond.
FAQs
Sacred geography in the Purāṇas situates moral and mythic events within a cosmic order governed by dharma.
No single tīrtha is named; the verse describes the cosmic region of Uttara Kuru north of Meru.
None; it is a geographic-cosmological description.
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