Those seven Varṣas (sub-continents) are known after the names of those seven (sons). Therefore the following (are well known), viz.: Śāntabhaya, Śiśira, Sukhodaya, Ānanda, Śiva, Kṣemaka and Dhruva. Those Varṣas were all equal (to one another). They were colonized in the different parts formerly in the Svāyambhuva Manvantara by those sons of Meḍhātithi who were kings and rulers of Plakṣadvīpa. The subjects in the Plakṣadvīpa were made to closely adhere to the disciplined conduct of life of the various castes and stages of life.