Citramārga

Citramārga · citra-mārga

Citramārga is a country of Bhārata-varsha, one of the countries that rest on the mountains. The Brahma Purāṇa names it in its account of the lands and peoples of Bhārata, which Brahmā (Padmaja) gives to Bhṛgu and the munis.

Among the countries on the mountains

Brahmā tells the munis that Bhārata-varsha is the karma-bhūmi, the land where karma bears fruit; svarga and naraka are the lands where its fruits are reaped. Even the suras and asuras long to live there and yearn, “When shall we see holy Bhārata?” When the munis ask for the whole account of that holy land, he speaks of its nine parts and then names its countries, region by region: the middle region, the countries of the kshatriya, vaiśya and śūdra jātis, the countries of the Kirāta jātis, the north, the east, the south, the western Aparānta, the Vindhya region and the countries on the mountains.

Among them he names the countries that rest on the mountains. In the order the Purāṇa gives them, they are Nīhāra, Tushamārga, Kuru, Tuṅgaṇa, Svasa, Karṇa, Prāvaraṇa, Ūrṇa, Dargha, Kuntaka, Citramārga, Mālavā, Kirāta and Tomara. Citramārga stands after Kuntaka and before Mālavā. With them the list ends, and Brahmā closes with the glory of Bhārata-varsha: here the dharma of the four yugas runs its course, and even the devatās long to be born here.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27