Shloka 7

Adhyaya 49: जम्बूद्वीप-मेर्वादि-वर्षपर्वत-वन-सरः-रुद्रक्षेत्र-वर्णनम्

Devanagari script

इदं हैमवतं वर्षं भारतं नाम विश्रुतम् हेमकूटं परं तस्मान् नाम्ना किंपुरुषं स्मृतम्

Transliteration

idaṃ haimavataṃ varṣaṃ bhārataṃ nāma viśrutam hemakūṭaṃ paraṃ tasmān nāmnā kiṃpuruṣaṃ smṛtam

Translation

Wilayah Himavat ini termasyhur dengan nama Bhārata-varṣa. Di seberangnya ada Hemakūṭa; dan lebih jauh lagi dikenang negeri bernama Kiṃpuruṣa.

Word by Word

• idam: this

• haimavatam: Himalayan, pertaining to Himavat

• varṣam: region/country (varṣa)

• bhāratam: Bhārata

• nāma: by name

• viśrutam: renowned, well-known

• hemakūṭam: Hemakūṭa (the Hemakūṭa mountain/region)

• param: beyond, further

• tasmāt: from that, beyond that

• nāmnā: by name

• kiṃpuruṣam: Kiṃpuruṣa (a varṣa/region)

• smṛtam: is remembered/known (in tradition)

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the cosmography as received in the Purana)