Varaha Purana 75.59: Adhyaya 75, Shloka 59
Description of Jambūdvīpa: its regions, mountains, measurements, and cosmic structure
स तु मेरुः परिवृतो भवनैर्भूतभावनैः । चत्वारो यस्य देशास्तु नानापार्श्वेषु धिष्ठिताः ॥ ७५.५९ ॥
sa tu meruḥ parivṛto bhavanair bhūtabhāvanaiḥ | chatvāro yasya deśās tu nānāpārśveṣu dhiṣṭhitāḥ || 75.59 ||
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It reflects a standard Purāṇic cosmographic model in which Mount Meru functions as a central axis, with surrounding habitations and directional regions—useful for tracing how South Asian texts organized sacred geography and imagined environmental habitability.
Mount Meru is identified as a cosmological (mythic) central mountain rather than a single verifiable terrestrial peak; scholars often compare it to ideological “world-mountain” motifs rather than a fixed modern location.
The verse implicitly frames habitation as “life-sustaining” (bhūtabhāvana), aligning cosmology with a philosophical emphasis on environments that support beings—an archival cue for ecological vocabulary rather than a prescriptive command.
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