Shloka 6
Adhyaya 57 — The Ninefold Divisions of Bharata: Mountains, Rivers, and Peoples
इन्द्रद्वीपः कशेरुमांस्ताम्रवर्णो गभस्तिमान् ।
नागद्वीपस्तथा सौम्यो गान्धर्वो वारुणस्तथा ॥
indradvīpaḥ kaśerumāṃs tāmravarṇo gabhastimān | nāgadvīpas tathā saumyo gāndharvo vāruṇas tathā ||
Indradvīpa, Kaśerumān, Tāmravarṇa dan Gabhastimān; demikian juga Nāgadvīpa, Saumya, Gāndharva dan Vāruṇa—semuanya dinamakan sebagai dvīpa/wilayah.
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FAQs
The verse models a Purāṇic way of knowing: the world is presented as an ordered, nameable cosmos. Remembering and reciting such lists is part of cultivating a ‘map’ of dharmic space—places are not merely physical, but embedded in sacred order.
Primarily within ‘Sthāna’ (cosmic geography/arrangement of worlds and regions), with a secondary link to ‘Sarga’ insofar as cosmography presumes the created order.
Enumerated dvīpas can be read symbolically as differentiated ‘fields’ of experience within the manifest world—variegated domains under a single cosmic law (ṛta/dharma).