SB 2.5.42

TEXT 42

TEXT

भूर्लोकः कल्पितः पद्भ्यां भुवर्लोको ऽस्य नाभितः ।
स्वर्लोकः कल्पितो मूर्ध्ना इति वा लोककल्पना ॥ ४२ ॥

bhurlokah kalpitah padbhyam

bhuvarloko 'sya nabhitah

svarlokah kalpito murdhna

iti va loka-kalpana

bhurlokah-the entire planetary system beginning from Patala to the earthly planetary system; kalpitah-imagined; padbhyam-situated on the legs; bhuvarlokah-the Bhuvarloka planetary system; asya-of the universal form of the Lord; nabhitah-out of the navel abdomen; svarlokah-the higher planetary system beginning with the heavenly planets-kalpitah-imagined; murdhna-beginning from the chest to the head; iti-thus; va-either; loka-the planetary systems; kalpana-imagination.

TRANSLATION

Others may divide the whole planetary system into three divisions, namely the lower planetary systems on the legs up to the earth, the middle planetary systems on the navel, and the upper planetary systems of Svarloka from the chest to the head of the Supreme Personality.

PURPORT

The three divisions of the complete planetary systems are here mentioned; fourteen are imagined by others, and that is also explained.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Second Canto, Fifth Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "The Cause of All Causes."

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