Shloka 2
Adhyaya 49: जम्बूद्वीप-मेर्वादि-वर्षपर्वत-वन-सरः-रुद्रक्षेत्र-वर्णनम्
Devanagari script
पञ्चाशत्कोटिविस्तीर्णा ससमुद्रा धरा स्मृता द्वीपैश् च सप्तभिर् युक्ता लोकालोकावृता शुभा
Transliteration
pañcāśatkoṭivistīrṇā sasamudrā dharā smṛtā dvīpaiś ca saptabhir yuktā lokālokāvṛtā śubhā
Translation
The Earth is remembered as stretching fifty crores in extent, together with its encircling oceans. Joined with the seven continents, it is auspicious and bounded by the Lokāloka range—marking the limit between the manifest worlds and the unmanifest darkness—thus sustaining the ordered cosmos under the Lord (Pati).
Word by Word
पञ्चाशत् (pañcāśat)fifty
पञ्चाशत् (pañcāśat):
कोटि (koṭi)crore (ten million)
कोटि (koṭi):
विस्तीर्णा (vistīrṇā)spread out, extensive
विस्तीर्णा (vistīrṇā):
स-समुद्रा (sa-samudrā)together with oceans
स-समुद्रा (sa-samudrā):
धरा (dharā)the Earth, the bearer
धरा (dharā):
स्मृता (smṛtā)is remembered/said to be
स्मृता (smṛtā):
द्वीपैः (dvīpaiḥ)with continents/islands
द्वीपैः (dvīpaiḥ):
च (ca)and
च (ca):
सप्तभिः (saptabhiḥ)by seven
सप्तभिः (saptabhiḥ):
युक्ता (yuktā)joined, endowed
युक्ता (yuktā):
लोकालोक-आवृता (lokāloka-āvṛtā)enclosed by Lokāloka (boundary of light and darkness/world and non-world)
लोकालोक-आवृता (lokāloka-āvṛtā):
शुभा (śubhā)auspicious, благотворная
शुभा (śubhā):
Speaker
Suta Goswami