Varaha Purana 75.26: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 26

Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure

Devanagari script

अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि हेमकूटो महागिरिः । अशीतिर्हिमवान्शैल आयतः पूर्वपश्चिमे ॥ ७५.२६ ॥

Recitation with translationVaraha Purana 75.26

Transliteration

aṣṭāśītisahasrāṇi hemakūṭo mahāgiriḥ | aśītir himavān śaila āyataḥ pūrvapaścime || 75.26 ||

Translation

มหาภูเขาเฮมกูฏะมีความยาวแปดหมื่นแปดพันโยชน์ ส่วนเทือกเขาหิมวานแผ่ขยายตามแนวตะวันออก–ตะวันตกยาวแปดหมื่นโยชน์.

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Word by Word

• अष्टा-शीति-सहस्राणि: eighty-eight thousand
• अष्टा-शीति-सहस्राणि: प्रमाण/विशेषण-सम्बन्ध (Measure/quantifier)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अष्टा + शीति + सहस्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया विभक्ति, बहुवचन; समासः—द्विगु (अष्टाशीति-सहस्र = 88,000)

• हेमकूटः: Hemakūṭa
• हेमकूटः: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हेमकूट (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• महागिरिः: the great mountain
• महागिरिः: सम्बोधन/विधेय (Predicate nominative/विधेय)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महागिरि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; समासः—कर्मधारय (महान् गिरिः)

• अशीतिḥ: eighty (thousand)
• अशीतिḥ: प्रमाण/विशेषण-सम्बन्ध (Measure/quantifier)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शीति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन (संख्यावाचक)

• हिमवान्: Himavān
• हिमवान्: कर्ता (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: हिमवत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• शैलः: mountain
• शैलः: विधेय (Predicate/विधेय)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शैल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• आयतः: extended/stretched
• आयतः: विशेषण (Adjectival modifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: आ + यम् (धातु) → आयत (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (क्त/PPP) विशेषणरूपे, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन; अर्थे—विस्तीर्णः/प्रसारितः

• पूर्व-पश्चिमे: in the east and west (direction)
• पूर्व-पश्चिमे: अधिकरण (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पूर्व + पश्चिम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, सप्तमी विभक्ति (Locative), द्विवचन; समासः—द्वन्द्व (पूर्वं च पश्चिमं च)

Speaker

Varāha (default speaker per dialogue framework; not explicit in the fragment)

Tags

• Classical Literature
• Vaishnavism
• Ancient Geography
• Sacred Geography

FAQs

What is the historical significance of this verse?

It preserves a Purāṇic cosmographic convention of describing major mountain systems with standardized numerical extents, useful for comparative study of ancient Indian geographical imagination and textual cartography.

Which geographic location is identified?

Hemakūṭa and Himavān are named mountain regions in Purāṇic geography; Himavān is commonly correlated in scholarship with the Himalayan range, while Hemakūṭa is treated as a mytho-geographic mountain associated with the broader Himālaya–Meru cosmological schema.

What is the primary ethical instruction?

The verse is primarily descriptive rather than prescriptive; its philosophical function is to situate human and sacred landscapes within a larger cosmological order, supporting cultural-heritage awareness of named natural features.