Varaha Purana 75.24: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 24
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
योजनानां सहस्राणि शतौ द्वौ चायतौ गिरौ । नीलश्च निषधश्चैव ताभ्यां हीनाश्च ये परे । श्वेतश्च हेमकूटश्च हिमवान् शृङ्गवांश्च यः ॥ ७५.२४ ॥
yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi śatau dvau cāyatau girau | nīlaś ca niṣadhaś caiva tābhyāṃ hīnāś ca ye pare | śvetaś ca hemakūṭaś ca himavān śṛṅgavāṃś ca yaḥ || 75.24 ||
ภูเขาสองลูกคือ นีละ และ นิษธะ แผ่ยาวสองแสนโยชนะ ส่วนภูเขาที่อยู่ถัดไปมีขนาดน้อยกว่า ได้แก่ ศเวตะ เหมกูฏะ และหิมวานผู้มีสันยอดมากมาย
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It preserves a Purāṇic cosmographic framework that combines named mountain ranges with traditional distance-units (yojana), reflecting how premodern Sanskrit texts organized knowledge of world-structure and scale.
The verse names Nīla, Niṣadha, Śveta, Hemakūṭa, and Himavān—primarily cosmographic mountain ranges in the Jambūdvīpa schema; Himavān is often associated in scholarship with the Himalayan massif, though the Purāṇic mapping is not strictly modern-geographic.
No direct ethical injunction is stated; the verse functions as descriptive sacred geography, supporting a broader Purāṇic aim of situating human life within an ordered cosmos and culturally significant landscapes.
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