Vamana Purana — Sukesha's Boon & Twelve Dharmas, Shloka 38
Sukesha’s Boon, the Twelve Dharmas of Beings, and the Cosmography of the Seven Dvipas with the Twenty-One Hells
घृतोदाद् द्विगुणः प्रोक्तः क्रौञ्चद्वीपो निशाचर ततो ऽपि द्विगुणः प्रोक्तः समुद्रो दधिसंज्ञितः
ghṛtodād dviguṇaḥ proktaḥ krauñcadvīpo niśācara tato 'pi dviguṇaḥ proktaḥ samudro dadhisaṃjñitaḥ
ഹേ നിശാചരാ! ഘൃത-സമുദ്രത്തേക്കാള് ക്രൗഞ്ചദ്വീപ് ഇരട്ടിയെന്ന് പറഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. അതിന് അപ്പുറം ‘ദധി’ എന്ന പേരുള്ള സമുദ്രവും ഇരട്ടിയെന്ന് പ്രഖ്യാപിതം.
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FAQs
The text models a contemplative map of reality: by presenting graded expansions, it trains the mind toward cosmic scale and the notion that the manifest world is systematically ordered.
It is part of Sarga-oriented cosmography (world-structure description), a standard Purāṇic component alongside genealogies and dynastic histories.
The ‘substance-oceans’ (ghee, curds, etc.) can be read as abundance and sacrificial imagery: ghṛta and dadhi are key ritual foods, suggesting the cosmos itself as a sacrificially imagined enclosure.