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Description of the earth - Verse 15

Vishnu Purana (GRETIL; M. M. Pathak critical edition) · 2 · Verse 2.15

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Sanskrit Original

नवसाहस्रम एकैकम एतेषां द्विजसत्तम इलावृतं च तन्मध्ये सौवर्णो मेरुर उच्छ्रितः ।।

navasāhasram ekaikam eteṣāṃ dvijasattama ilāvṛtaṃ ca tanmadhye sauvarṇo merur ucchritaḥ ||

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In the center of Ilāvṛta, there rises a golden Meru, which is nine thousand miles high, O best of the twice-born.