Chapter 16:
How the Lord can be Comprehended as a Matter of Fact
(5) The width of this area all around the
earth
[our
material 'island'], this space inside the whorl of the lotus flower [of
the galaxy] unfolding in the night which is as round as a lotus leaf,
measures a terrible number of yojanas [or light years as we
say
these days*].
Chapter 17:
The Descent of the River Ganges
(16)
In the company of Bhavânî there are ten billion women who
always serve the in four expanded Supreme Lord [see 1.5:
37]. The fourth expansion of the Supreme
Personality, known as Sankarshana, constitutes the source of His form
in the mode of ignorance. Lord S'iva, in trance meditating on Him,
calls Him into his heart by reciting the following in worship.
Chapter 18:
Prayers to the different Avatâras
(15)
The Supreme Lord resides in Ketumâla in the form of
Kâmadeva [or also
Pradyumna, see 4.24: 35] according to
His wish to satisfy the
Goddess of Fortune as well as the sons [the days] and the daughters
[the nights] of the founding father [Samvatsara, the deity of the year]
who rule the land and of whom there are as many as there are days and
nights in a human lifetime. The fetuses of these daughters whose minds
are upset by the radiation of the mighty weapon [the cakra] of the
Supreme Personality, are ruined and after one year expelled dead [from
the womb] as miscarriages.
Chapter 19:
The prayers of Hanumân and Nârada
and the glories of Bhârata-varsha
(2) Together with
Ârshthishena [the leader of Kimpurusha] attentively listening to
the stories about his most auspicious
master and Lordship being chanted by a company of Gandharvas, he
[Hanumân] himself prays this:
Chapter 20:
The structure of the Different Dvîpas and
the Prayers by their Different Peoples
(2) The
way Mount Meru
is surrounded by the dvîpa of Jambû, that dvîpa
on its turn is [as seen
from the inside]
surrounded
by a salty ocean that is just as wide. That ocean is surrounded, like a
moat by a park, by the dvîpa of Plaksha which stretches out twice as much. It was named after the plaksha tree that is as tall
as a jambû but twice as wide. At the root of that tree
which rises magnificently
splendorous, there is
a fire that counts seven flames.
The master of that dvîpa
is the son of Priyavrata named Idhmajihva. When he retired for the yoga of self-realization he divided the dvîpa into seven
varshas that he named after his seven sons.
