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 ||
提兰伽人，以及居于象谷（Kuñjaradarī）沼泽地（kaccha）之民；又有达摩罗帕尔尼（Tāmraparṇī）之地与所谓“腹部”（kukṣi）——此诸处构成龟形分区“库尔摩”（Kūrma）之南部。
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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.