Antya 2.10 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

TEXT 10

sapta-dvipera loka ara nava-khanda-vasi

deva, gandharva, kinnara manusya-vese asi'

SYNONYMS

sapta-dvipera lokapeople from all of the seven islands within the universe; araand; nava-khanda-vasithe in habitants of the nine khandas; devademigods; gandharvathe inhabitants of Gandharvaloka; kinnarathe inhabitants of Kinnaraloka; manusya-vesein the form of human beings; asi'-coming.

TRANSLATION

People from all over the universe, including the seven islands, the nine khandas, the planets of the demigods, Gandharvaloka and Kinnaraloka, would go there in the forms of human beings.

PURPORT

For an explanation of sapta-dvipa, see Madhya-lila, Chapter Twenty, verse 218, and Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapters Sixteen and Twenty. in the Siddhanta-siromani, Chapter One (Goladhyaya), in the Bhuvana-kosa section, the nine khandas are mentioned as follows:

aindram kaseru sakalam kila tamraparnam
anyad gabhastimad atas ca kumarikakhyam
nagam ca saumyam iha varunam antya-khandam
gandharva-samjnam iti bharata-varsa-madhye

"Within Bharata-varsa, there are nine khandas. They are known as (1) Aindra, (2) Kaseru, (3) Tamraparna, (4) Gabhastimat, (5) Kumarika, (6) Naga (7) Saumya, (8) Varuna and (9) Gandharva."

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