रक्षांसि वै हिमवति हेमकूटे तु गुह्यकाः ॥
सर्पा नागाश् च निषधे गोकर्णे च तपोधनाः ॥
देवासुराणां च गृहं श्वेतः पर्वत उच्यते ॥
गन्धर्वा निषधे शैले नीले ब्रह्मर्षयो नृप ॥
शृङ्गवांस् तु महाराज पितॄणां प्रतिसंचरः ॥
इत्य् एतानि महाराज सप्त वर्षाणि भागशः ॥
भूतान्य् उपनिविष्टानि गतिमन्ति ध्रुवाणि च ॥
तेषाम् ऋद्धिर् बहुविधा दृश्यते दैवमानुषी ॥
अशक्या परिसंख्यातुं श्रद्धेया तु बुभूषता ॥
यां तु पृच्छसि मा राजन् दिव्याम् एतां शशाकृतिम् ॥
पार्श्वे शशस्य द्वे वर्षे उभये दक्षिणोत्तरे ॥
कर्णौ तु नागद्वीपं च कश्यपद्वीपम् एव च ॥
ताम्रवर्णः शिरो राजञ् श्रीमान् मलयपर्वतः ॥
एतद् द्वितीयं द्वीपस्य दृश्यते शशसंस्थितम् ॥
rakṣāṃsi vai himavati hemakūṭe tu guhyakāḥ ||
sarpā nāgāś ca niṣadhe gokarṇe ca tapodhanāḥ ||
devāsurāṇāṃ ca gṛhaṃ śvetaḥ parvata ucyate ||
gandharvā niṣadhe śaile nīle brahmarṣayo nṛpa ||
śṛṅgavāṃs tu mahārāja pitṝṇāṃ pratisaṃcaraḥ ||
ity etāni mahārāja sapta varṣāṇi bhāgaśaḥ ||
bhūtāny upaniviṣṭāni gatimanti dhruvāṇi ca ||
teṣām ṛddhir bahuvidhā dṛśyate daivamānuṣī ||
aśakyā parisaṃkhyātuṃ śraddheyā tu bubhūṣatā ||
yāṃ tu pṛcchasi mā rājan divyām etāṃ śaśākṛtim ||
pārśve śaśasya dve varṣe ubhaye dakṣiṇottare ||
karṇau tu nāgadvīpaṃ ca kaśyapadvīpam eva ca ||
tāmravarṇaḥ śiro rājañ śrīmān malayaparvataḥ ||
etad dvitīyaṃ dvīpasya dṛśyate śaśasaṃsthitam ||
Rakshasas dwell on Himavan, guhyakas on Hemakuta, serpents and nagas on Nishadha, and ascetics rich in austerity on Gokarna. Shveta is called the dwelling of gods and asuras; gandharvas live on Mount Nishadha, brahmarshis on Nila, O king, and Shringavan, O great king, is the place of passage of the ancestors. Such are these seven varshas, divided by their parts; in them have settled beings both moving and unmoving. Their prosperity, divine and human, is manifold and cannot be fully enumerated, yet one who seeks the good should accept it with trust. You ask me, O king, about this divine form of the hare: on the two sides of the hare lie the two varshas, southern and northern; its two ears are Nagadvipa and Kashyapadvipa. The head, O king, of copper hue, is the glorious mountain Malaya. Thus is seen the second part of the island, shaped in the form of a hare.
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The conclusion draws the inhabitants, the sacred regions, and the image of the hare into a single picture. Sanjaya acknowledges the limit of enumeration: cosmic abundance cannot be exhausted by counting, and so the right response to such knowledge calls for trust, humility, and a striving toward the good.