Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.16.12

caturshv eteshu cūta-jambū-kadamba-nyagrodhāś catvārah pādapa-pravarāh parvata-ketava ivādhi-sahasra-yojanonnāhās tāvad vitapa-vitatayah śata-yojana-parināhāh

SYNONYMS

caturshu — on the four; eteshu — on these mountains, beginning with Mandara; cūta-jambū-kadamba — of trees such as the mango, rose apple and kadamba; nyagrodhāh — and the banyan tree; catvārah — four kinds; pādapa-pravarāh — the best of trees; parvata-ketavah — the flagstaffs on the mountains; iva — like; adhi — over; sahasra-yojana-unnāhāh — one thousand yojanas high; tāvat — so much also; vitapa-vitatayah — the length of the branches; śata-yojana — one hundred yojanas; parināhāh — wide.

TRANSLATION

Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas [800 miles] and a height of 1,100 yojanas [8,800 miles]. Their branches also spread to a radius of 1,100 yojanas.

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