Pavana (Country)

Pavana

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Pavana is a country of Bhārata-varsha, named among the lands of the Vindhya mountain region. The Brahma Purāṇa names it in its account of the lands and peoples of Bhārata, which Brahmā (Padmaja, the lotus-born) gives to Bhṛgu and the munis.

Among the countries of the Vindhya region

Brahmā tells the munis that Bhārata-varsha is the karma-bhūmi, the land where karma bears fruit; even the devas 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 and the western Aparānta.

Then he names the countries of the Vindhya mountain region. In the order the Purāṇa gives them, they are Malaja, Karkaśa, Melaka, Jośaka, Uttamarṇa, Daśārṇa, Bhoja, Kishkindha, Toshala, Kośala, Traipura, Vaidiśa, Tumbura, Cara, Yavana, Pavana, Abhaya, Ruṇḍikera, Barbara, Hotra and Ṛtu. Pavana stands after Yavana and before Abhaya. After them Brahmā names the countries that rest on the mountains.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 27