Shloka 51

Adhyaya 52: सोमाधारः, पुण्योदानदी, मेरुप्रदक्षिणा, जम्बूद्वीपनववर्षवर्णनम्

Devanagari script

मयूरबर्हवर्णस्तु शातकुंभस् त्रिशृङ्गवान् एते पर्वतराजानो जंबूद्वीपे व्यवस्थिताः

Transliteration

mayūrabarhavarṇastu śātakuṃbhas triśṛṅgavān ete parvatarājāno jaṃbūdvīpe vyavasthitāḥ

Translation

മയൂരബർഹ (മയില്പീലി വർണ്ണമുള്ളത്), ശാതകുംഭ, ത്രിശൃംഗവാൻ—ഇവർ പർവതരാജാക്കന്മാർ ജംബൂദ്വീപിൽ സ്ഥിതിചെയ്യുന്നു॥

Word by Word

• मयूर-बर्ह-वर्णः: having the color of a peacock-feather plume

• तु: and/indeed

• शातकुंभः: Śātakuṃbha (lit. ‘of refined gold’, a named mountain)

• त्रि-शृङ्ग-वान्: possessing three peaks

• एते: these

• पर्वत-राजानः: kings among mountains/sovereign mountains

• जंबूद्वीपे: in Jambūdvīpa

• व्यवस्थिताः: situated/established

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)