Shloka 16
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
तैः पीयन्ते सरित्श्रेष्ठा यास्ताः सम्यङ्निबोध मे ।
गङ्गा सरस्वती सिन्धुश्चन्द्रभागा तथापरा ॥
taiḥ pīyante saritśreṣṭhā yās tāḥ samyaṅ nibodha me / gaṅgā sarasvatī sindhuś candrabhāgā tathāparā
నా నుండి సరిగా వినుము—పానయోగ్య జలములు గల శ్రేష్ఠ నదులు: గంగా, సరస్వతి, సింధు, చంద్రభాగా మరియు ఇతరములు।
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FAQs
Purāṇic geography is presented as a dharmic map: knowing and honoring sacred waters supports purity (śauca) and pilgrimage culture, linking landscape with merit (puṇya).
Primarily within Vaṃśānucarita/Manvantara-adjacent descriptive material and Purāṇic ‘bhūgolika’ (cosmographic-geographic) cataloguing; it is not a sarga/pratisarga passage but a tīrtha-geography listing used across Purāṇas.
Rivers function as outward symbols of inner cleansing: the ‘drinkable’ waters indicate assimilation of purity—taking in sattva and washing away pāpa through contact with sacred flow.