SB 5.20.7
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 7
- plakṣaḥ sva-samānenekṣu-rasodenāvṛto
- yathā tathā dvīpo 'pi śālmalo
- dvi-guṇa-viśālaḥ samānena surodenāvṛtaḥ parivṛṅkte
SYNONYMS
plakṣaḥ — the land known as Plakṣadvīpa; sva-samānena — equal in width; ikṣu-rasa — of sugarcane juice; udena — by an ocean; āvṛtaḥ — surrounded; yathā — just as; tathā — similarly; dvīpaḥ — another island; api — also; śālmalaḥ — known as Śālmala; dvi-guṇa-viśālaḥ — twice as big; samānena — equal in width; surā-udena — by an ocean of liquor; āvṛtaḥ — surrounded; parivṛṅkte — exists.
TRANSLATION
Plakṣadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island—Sālmalīdvīpa—twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.