इदं तु भारतं वर्षं ततो हैमवतं परम् ॥
हेमकूटात् परं चैव हरिवर्षं प्रचक्षते ॥
दक्षिणेन तु नीलस्य निषधस्योत्तरेण च ॥
प्रागायतो महाराज माल्यवान् नाम पर्वतः ॥
ततः परं माल्यवतः पर्वतो गन्धमादनः ॥
परिमण्डलस् तयोर् मध्ये मेरुः कनकपर्वतः ॥
आदित्यतरुणाभासो विधूम इव पावकः ॥
योजनानां सहस्राणि षोडशाधः किल स्मृतः ॥
उच्चैश् च चतुराशीतिर् योजनानां महीपते ॥
ऊर्ध्वम् अन्तश् च तिर्यक् च लोकान् आवृत्य तिष्ठति ॥
तस्य पार्श्वे त्व् इमे द्वीपाश् चत्वारः संस्थिताः प्रभो ॥
भद्राश्वः केतुमालश् च जम्बूद्वीपश् च भारत ॥
उत्तराश् चैव कुरवः कृतपुण्यप्रतिश्रयाः ॥
idaṃ tu bhārataṃ varṣaṃ tato haimavataṃ param ||
hemakūṭāt paraṃ caiva harivarṣaṃ pracakṣate ||
dakṣiṇena tu nīlasya niṣadhasyottareṇa ca ||
prāgāyato mahārāja mālyavān nāma parvataḥ ||
tataḥ paraṃ mālyavataḥ parvato gandhamādanaḥ ||
parimaṇḍalas tayor madhye meruḥ kanakaparvataḥ ||
ādityataruṇābhāso vidhūma iva pāvakaḥ ||
yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi ṣoḍaśādhaḥ kila smṛtaḥ ||
uccaiś ca caturāśītir yojanānāṃ mahīpate ||
ūrdhvam antaś ca tiryak ca lokān āvṛtya tiṣṭhati ||
tasya pārśve tv ime dvīpāś catvāraḥ saṃsthitāḥ prabho ||
bhadrāśvaḥ ketumālaś ca jambūdvīpaś ca bhārata ||
uttarāś caiva kuravaḥ kṛtapuṇyapratiśrayāḥ ||
This region is Bharata-varsha; beyond it lies Haimavata. Further still, beyond Hemakuta, they call it Harivarsha. To the south of Nila and to the north of Nishadha, O great king, stretches eastward the mountain called Malyavan; beyond Malyavan stands the mountain Gandhamadana. Between them lies round Meru, the golden mountain. It shines like the rising sun, like a smokeless fire; it is said to descend sixteen thousand yojanas below, and to rise, O lord of the earth, eighty-four thousand above. Rising upward, reaching inward, and stretching across, it encompasses the worlds. On its flanks, O lord, are situated four dvipas: Bhadrashva, Ketumala, Jambudvipa, and the northern Kurus, refuge of those who have won holy merit.
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Meru stands at the center of this description as the golden axis of cosmic order. In this traditional vision such geography is not reducible to a physical map: it expresses a hierarchy of spaces, a bond between merit and the place of one's birth, and the dependence of the visible world on a higher order.