Shloka 9
Yuga-Lakṣaṇa and Varṣa-Pramāṇa Inquiry (युगलक्षण–वर्षप्रमाण–प्रश्न)
जम्बूद्वीपप्रमाणेन द्विगुण: स नराधिप । विष्कम्भेण महाराज सागरो5डपि विभागश:
jambūdvīpapramāṇena dviguṇaḥ sa narādhipa | viṣkambheṇa mahārāja sāgaro 'pi vibhāgaśaḥ ||
संजय बोले—महाराज! नरेश्वर! विस्तार-परिमाण की दृष्टि से वह द्वीप जम्बूद्वीप से दूना है; और हे महराज, विभागानुसार उसका समुद्र भी उसी प्रकार दूना ही है।
संजय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys that the world is described through proportion and orderly measurement: lands and their oceans are presented as systematically related (here, ‘double’ by measure and breadth), reflecting a cosmos governed by intelligible structure.
Sañjaya is reporting to the king a cosmographical detail: a certain region (and its ocean) is said to be twice the measure of Jambūdvīpa, with the ocean’s extent likewise described according to its divisions.