Shloka 28

Adhyaya 52: सोमाधारः, पुण्योदानदी, मेरुप्रदक्षिणा, जम्बूद्वीपनववर्षवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

नागद्वीपं तथा सौम्यं गान्धर्वं वारुणं गताः केचिन्म्लेच्छाः पुलिन्दाश् च नानाजातिसमुद्भवाः

Transliteration

nāgadvīpaṃ tathā saumyaṃ gāndharvaṃ vāruṇaṃ gatāḥ kecinmlecchāḥ pulindāś ca nānājātisamudbhavāḥ

Translation

നാനാജാതികളിൽ ജനിച്ച ചില മ്ലേച്ഛരും പുലിന്ദരും മുതലായവർ നാഗദ്വീപം, സൗമ്യദ്വീപം, ഗാന്ധർവദ്വീപം, വാരുണദ്വീപം എന്നിവിടങ്ങളിലേക്കു പോയി।

Word by Word

• नागद्वीपम्: Nāgadvīpa (a named island/region)

• तथा: likewise/also

• सौम्यम्: Saumya (named dvīpa/region)

• गान्धर्वम्: Gāndharva (named dvīpa/region)

• वारुणम्: Vāruṇa (named dvīpa/region)

• गताः: went/arrived

• केचित्: some

• म्लेच्छाः: foreign/non-Vedic peoples (outside orthodox varṇāśrama)

• पुलिन्दाः: Pulindas (a forest/tribal people)

• च: and

• नाना-जाति-समुद्भवाः: originating from many kinds of births/tribes/ethnic groupings

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)