plaksah sva-samaneneksu-rasodenavrto yatha tatha dvipo ’pi salmalo dvi-guna-visalah samanena surodenavrtah parivrnkte.
SYNONYMS
plaksah—the land known as Plaksadvipa; sva-samanena—equal in width; iksu-rasa—of sugarcane juice; udena—by an ocean; avrtah—surrounded; yatha—just as; tatha—similarly; dvipah—another island; api—also; salmalah—known as Salmala; dvi-guna-visalah—twice as big; samanena—equal in width; sura-udena—by an ocean of liquor; avrtah—surrounded; parivrnkte—exists.
TRANSLATION
Plaksadvipa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island—Salmalidvipa—twice as broad as Plaksadvipa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surasagara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.
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