Shloka 7
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
अयन्तु नवमस्तेषां द्वीपः सागरसंवृतः ।
योजनानां हसस्त्रं वै द्वीपोऽयं दक्षिणोत्तरात् ॥
ayaṃ tu navamas teṣāṃ dvīpaḥ sāgarasaṃvṛtaḥ | yojanānāṃ sahasraṃ vai dvīpo 'yaṃ dakṣiṇottarāt ||
This indeed is the ninth among them: an island (dvīpa) surrounded by the ocean. Its extent is a thousand yojanas, measured from south to north.
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FAQs
Purāṇic geography ties human imagination to scale and boundary: the ocean-girt dvīpa suggests limits, order, and the idea that human life unfolds within a measured cosmos rather than chaos.
‘Sthāna’ (description of the world’s arrangement and dimensions).
The ‘ocean boundary’ can signify saṃsāric limitation; the measured span hints that liberation is sought not by expanding the world outward, but by transcending its enclosing conditions.