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.
bb7a307c9ac7 · 发布于 2026年7月17日 20:37:17 UTC
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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.