Shloka 28
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
तिलङ्गा कुञ्जारदरीकच्छवासाश्च ये जनाः ।
ताम्रपर्णो तथा कुक्षिरिति कूर्मस्य दक्षिणः ॥
tilaṅgā kuñjāradarī-kaccha-vāsāś ca ye janāḥ | tāmraparṇo tathā kukṣir iti kūrmasya dakṣiṇaḥ ||
ชาวติลังกะ และผู้คนที่อาศัยในดินแดนชุ่มน้ำ (กัจฉะ) แห่งหุบเขาช้าง (กุญชรทรี) อีกทั้งแคว้นตัมรปัรณีและส่วนที่เรียกว่า ‘กุกษิ’—ทั้งหมดนี้นับเป็นภาคใต้แห่งการแบ่งกูรมะ (รูปเต่า)
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FAQs
The ‘Kūrma’ metaphor organizes land into an intelligible sacred body-plan, implying that geography can be contemplated as an ordered whole rather than scattered localities.
Bhū-varṇana (cosmography), a common Purāṇic component that supports broader accounts of world-order.
The tortoise-body mapping echoes Vedic-Purāṇic body-cosmos correspondences: regions become limbs, suggesting the world as a living organism sustained by dharma.