Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 35
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
ततो जलनिधी रौद्रो बाह्यतो द्विगुणः स्थितः तस्यापि द्विगुणः प्लक्षो बाह्यतः संप्रतिष्ठितः
tato jalanidhī raudro bāhyato dviguṇaḥ sthitaḥ tasyāpi dviguṇaḥ plakṣo bāhyataḥ saṃpratiṣṭhitaḥ
Luego, por fuera de ella, se halla el océano feroz, de extensión doble. Más afuera aún, está establecido el continente Plakṣa, también doble (respecto del anterior).
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FAQs
The doubling pattern conveys expansion by lawful proportion, reinforcing the Purāṇic vision that the universe unfolds through intelligible gradations—mirroring the idea that dharma too has ordered layers from center to periphery.
Falls under Sarga-oriented cosmography (description of the created world arrangement), a standard Purāṇic component even when not narrating dynasties or manvantaras.
The ‘fierce’ ocean (raudra) ring can symbolize boundary and liminality—what separates inhabited order from the next domain—while the dvīpa beyond indicates successive realms of experience and cosmological scale.