Shloka 10
द्युतिमान् नाम कौरव्य तृतीय: कुमुदो गिरि:,कौरव्य! वहीं परम कान्तिमान् कुमुद नामक तीसरा पर्वत है। चौथा पुष्पवान, पाँचवाँ कुशेशय और छठा हरिगिरि है। ये छः कुशद्वीपके श्रेष्ठ पर्वत हैं
dyutimān nāma kauravya tṛtīyaḥ kumudo giriḥ
Sañjaya said: “O Kauravya, the third mountain there is the splendid one named Kumuda.” In this cosmographical reckoning, the narrator continues to set forth the sacred geography of Kuśadvīpa, naming its peaks as signs of the world’s order and design.
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse reinforces a worldview where the cosmos is intelligible and ordered: named mountains and regions are not random details but part of a structured sacred geography, supporting the epic’s broader concern with dharma as order—social, moral, and cosmic.
Sañjaya is describing the features of Kuśadvīpa and enumerating its principal mountains; here he identifies the third mountain as the radiant peak named Kumuda while addressing Dhṛtarāṣṭra as ‘Kauravya’.