Shloka 33

भुवनकोशस्वभाववर्णनम् — सप्तद्वीप-पर्वत-लोकविन्यासः तथा यक्ष-उमा-प्रकाशः

Devanagari script

दृश्यादृश्यगिरिर् यावत् तावदेषा धरा द्विजाः योजनानां सहस्राणि दश तस्योच्छ्रयः स्मृतः

Transliteration

dṛśyādṛśyagirir yāvat tāvadeṣā dharā dvijāḥ yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi daśa tasyocchrayaḥ smṛtaḥ

Translation

ਹੇ ਦਵਿਜ ਰਿਸ਼ਿਓ, ਇਹ ਧਰਤੀ ‘ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼੍ਯ–ਅਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼੍ਯ’ ਨਾਮਕ ਪਹਾੜ ਤੱਕ ਫੈਲੀ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਦੀ ਉਚਾਈ ਪਰੰਪਰਾ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਦਸ ਹਜ਼ਾਰ ਯੋਜਨ ਮੰਨੀ ਗਈ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• द्विजाः: O twice-born (Brāhmaṇas)

• धरा: the Earth, the sustaining ground

• एषा: this

• तावत्: so far, to that extent

• यावत्: as far as, up to

• दृश्यादृश्यगिरिः: the mountain named Dṛśya–Adṛśya (Visible–Invisible)

• योजनानाम्: of yojanas (a measure of distance)

• सहस्राणि: thousands

• दश: ten

• तस्य: of it (of the Earth / that mountain-range boundary)

• उच्छ्रयः: height, elevation

• स्मृतः: is remembered/recorded in tradition

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating to the sages of Naimisharanya)