Shloka 12
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
तथा चन्द्रेश्वराश्चैव खशाश्च मगधास्तथा ।
गिरयो मैथिलाः शुभ्रास्तथा वदनदन्तुराः ॥
tathā candreśvarāś caiva khaśāś ca magadhās tathā | girayo maithilāḥ śubhrās tathā vadanadanturāḥ ||
เช่นเดียวกัน พวกจันเทรศวระ พวกคสะ และพวกมคธะ; ชนผู้พำนักตามภูเขา; ชาวไมถิละผู้ผ่องใส (ผิวขาว); และชนที่เรียกว่า วทนทันตุระ ก็ถูกกล่าวถึง
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FAQs
The Purāṇa’s ‘world’ is simultaneously physical and cultural: peoples and mountains are listed in one breath. This encourages a worldview where human society and nature are co-ordered parts of dharma’s arena.
Sthiti—description of the world’s arrangement and its inhabitants.
Pairing ethnonyms with ‘girayaḥ’ suggests that human traits and natural forms mirror each other within the cosmic body. The ‘śubhra’ epithet may encode auspicious valuation of certain regions within the omen-oriented mapping.