Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 57, Shloka 46
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
शैलूषा मूषिकाश्चैव कुसुमा नामवासकाः । महाराष्ट्रा माहिषका कलिङ्गाश्चैव सर्वशः ॥
śailūṣā mūṣikāścaiva kusumā nāmavāsakāḥ / mahārāṣṭrā māhiṣakā kaliṅgāścaiva sarvaśaḥ
设伊卢沙（Śailūṣa）与牟湿迦（Mūṣika）；居于名为那摩婆娑迦（Nāmavāsaka）之地的拘苏摩（Kusuma）；以及遍在各处的摩诃罗湿多罗（Mahārāṣṭra）、摩醯沙迦（Māhiṣaka）与迦陵伽（Kaliṅga）。
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FAQs
The Purāṇa’s geographic memory preserves a mosaic of identities; ‘sarvaśaḥ’ suggests Kaliṅga’s wide presence or broad sub-regional spread in the tradition remembered by the text.
Bhū-varṇana (earth/regions description), a standard purāṇic component that supports the Purāṇa’s larger narrative purposes.
Enumerations create a ‘mantric’ effect of naming: repeated ethnonyms function like a litany that fixes the world in speech, transforming space into recitable order.