Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.20.7

plakshah sva-samānenekshu-rasodenāvrito yathā tathā dvīpo 'pi śālmalo dvi-guna-viśālah samānena surodenāvritah parivrińkte

SYNONYMS

plakshah — the land known as Plakshadvīpa; sva-samānena — equal in width; ikshu-rasa — of sugarcane juice; udena — by an ocean; āvritah — surrounded; yathā — just as; tathā — similarly; dvīpah — another island; api — also; śālmalah — known as Śālmala; dvi-guna-viśālah — twice as big; samānena — equal in width; surā-udena — by an ocean of liquor; āvritah — surrounded; parivrińkte — exists.

TRANSLATION

Plakshadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island — Sālmalīdvīpa — twice as broad as Plakshadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.

<<< >>>

Copyright ©r The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness