जम्बूद्वीप इति ख्यातां विपुलां तत्र कर्णिकाम् । सरित्केसरिकानालां नगरग्रामकेसराम् ॥ ८ ॥
jambūdvīpa iti khyātāṁ vipulāṁ tatra karṇikām | saritkēsarikānālāṁ nagaragrāmakēsarām || 8 ||
Translation
There they saw its broad seed-pod, known as Jambudvīpa, its rivers the fibres of its filaments, towns and villages its filaments;
Word by word
- jambūdvīpa
- (jambudvīpaḥ) Jambudvīpa
- iti
- as
- khyātāṁ
- known
- vipulāṁ
- broad
- tatra
- there
- karṇikām
- its seed-pod
- sarit
- its rivers
- kēsarikā
- the fibres of its filaments
- nālāṁ
- its stalks
- nagara
- towns
- grāma
- and villages
- kēsarām
- its filaments
Meaning
Jambudvīpa, the "island of the rose-apple tree", is the central continent of the Purāṇic earth, where India lies. It is the pod at the lotus's centre. From here to v. 34 the sentence describes it and what surrounds it.