Shloka 4
Adhyaya 55 — Description of Jambudvipa: The Four Forests, Lakes, and Mountain Ranges Around Mount Meru; Bharata as the Karma-Bhumi
शीतार्तश्चक्रमुञ्जश्च कुलीरोऽथ सुकङ्कवान् । मणिशैलोऽथ वृषवान् महानीलो भवाचलः ॥
śītārtaś cakramuñjaś ca kulīro ’tha sukaṅkavān | maṇiśailo ’tha vṛṣavān mahānīlo bhavācalaḥ ||
శీతార్త, చక్రముఞ్జ, కులీర, సుకంకవాన్; మణిశైలం, వృషవాన్, మహానీలం, భవాచలం—ఇవి (గణనలోని) మహాపర్వతాలు.
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FAQs
The passage models a Puranic way of sacralizing space: naming and ordering the world turns geography into a remembered, meaningful cosmos rather than mere physical terrain.
Primarily within ‘Vaṃśānucarita/Manvantara-world description’ adjunct material; more specifically it belongs to Puranic cosmography (often treated under sarga/pratisarga-related world-structure descriptions rather than genealogy).
Mountains function as cosmic ‘supports’ (dhāraṇā) and boundaries; listing them around Meru encodes an ordered mandala-like universe with Meru as the axial center.