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Description of Plakṣa and other continents (dvīpa) - Verse 108

Brahmanda Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 19 · Verse 108

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Sanskrit Original

पुष्करं सप्तमं द्वीपं प्रवक्ष्यामि निबोधत। पुष्करेण तु द्वीपेन वृतः क्षीरोदको बहिः।।

puṣkaraṃ saptamaṃ dvīpaṃ pravakṣyāmi nibodhata| puṣkareṇa tu dvīpena vṛtaḥ kṣīrodako bahiḥ||

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Sūta said: I shall describe Puṣkara the seventh continent. Understand it. The ocean with milk as its liquid content is externally surrounded on all sides by the continent Puṣkara which is twice as much as the Śākadvīpa in extent. There is only one glorious mountain with huge rocky cliffs. It possesses peaks, clusters of cliffs of various (sizes and shapes), full of precious jewels. It is extremely lofty and it has variegated ridges. This great mountain has diversified ridges in the eastern half of the continent. It is very extensive—of twenty-five thousand (Yojanas)—with a number of ridges. It rises up from the ground level upto thirty-four thousand (Yojanas).