परिवार्य तु कौरव्य दैर्घ्यं ह्रस्वत्वम् एव च ॥
जम्बूद्वीपेन विख्यातस् तस्य मध्ये महाद्रुमः ॥
शाको नाम महाराज तस्य द्वीपस्य मध्यगः ॥
तत्र पुण्या जनपदाः पूज्यते तत्र शंकरः ॥
तत्र गच्छन्ति सिद्धाश् च चारणा दैवतानि च ॥
धार्मिकाश् च प्रजा राजंश् चत्वारो ऽतीव भारत ॥
वर्णाः स्वकर्मनिरता न च स्तेनो ऽत्र दृश्यते ॥
दीर्घायुषो महाराज जरामृत्युविवर्जिताः ॥
प्रजास् तत्र विवर्धन्ते वर्षास्व् इव समुद्रगाः ॥
नद्यः पुण्यजलास् तत्र गङ्गा च बहुधागतिः ॥
सुकुमारी कुमारी च सीता कावेरका तथा ॥
महानदी च कौरव्य तथा मणिजला नदी ॥
इक्षुवर्धनिका चैव तथा भरतसत्तम ॥
ततः प्रवृत्ताः पुण्योदा नद्यः कुरुकुलोद्वह ॥
सहस्राणां शतान्य् एव यतो वर्षति वासवः ॥
न तासां नामधेयानि परिमाणं तथैव च ॥
शक्यते परिसंख्यातुं पुण्यास् ता हि सरिद्वराः ॥
parivārya tu kauravya dairghyaṃ hrasvatvam eva ca ||
jambūdvīpena vikhyātas tasya madhye mahādrumaḥ ||
śāko nāma mahārāja tasya dvīpasya madhyagaḥ ||
tatra puṇyā janapadāḥ pūjyate tatra śaṃkaraḥ ||
tatra gacchanti siddhāś ca cāraṇā daivatāni ca ||
dhārmikāś ca prajā rājaṃś catvāro 'tīva bhārata ||
varṇāḥ svakarmaniratā na ca steno 'tra dṛśyate ||
dīrghāyuṣo mahārāja jarāmṛtyuvivarjitāḥ ||
prajās tatra vivardhante varṣāsv iva samudragāḥ ||
nadyaḥ puṇyajalās tatra gaṅgā ca bahudhāgatiḥ ||
sukumārī kumārī ca sītā kāverakā tathā ||
mahānadī ca kauravya tathā maṇijalā nadī ||
ikṣuvardhanikā caiva tathā bharatasattama ||
tataḥ pravṛttāḥ puṇyodā nadyaḥ kurukulodvaha ||
sahasrāṇāṃ śatāny eva yato varṣati vāsavaḥ ||
na tāsāṃ nāmadheyāni parimāṇaṃ tathaiva ca ||
śakyate parisaṃkhyātuṃ puṇyās tā hi saridvarāḥ ||
O Kaurava, this island is known, in its length and its lesser measure, by comparison with Jambudvipa. At its center stands a great tree named Shaka, standing in the middle of this island, O great king. There are holy countries there; there Shankara is worshipped. There siddhas, charanas, and deities go. The people there, O king, are righteous, and the four varnas, O Bharata, are in the highest degree devoted to their own duties; no thief is to be seen there. They are long-lived, O great king, free from old age and death. The people there flourish like rivers flowing to the ocean in the season of rains. There are rivers there with holy waters, and the Ganga flows in many streams: Sukumari, Kumari, Sita, Kaveraka, Mahanadi, O Kaurava, Manijala, and Ikshuvardhanika, O best of the Bharatas. From there, O upholder of the Kuru line, hundreds of thousands of holy-watered rivers flowed forth, for it is from there that Indra sends down rain. It is impossible to fully enumerate their names and their measures, for these holy rivers are the finest of streams.
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The central Shaka tree, the worship of Shankara, and the purity of the social order together bind nature, reverence for God, and dharma into one. Where the varnas are devoted to their own duty and no theft occurs, life is described as free from old age and death, and the rivers become an image of unbroken blessing.