Chapter 16:
How the Lord can be Comprehended as a Matter of Fact
(5) Whatever [one could say to
the size] of this separated area ['island' or dvîpa], this inner whorl of
the lotusflower unfolding at night
which is as round as a lotus leaf, would be of a terrible number of yojanas [measures of distance,
lightyears we say these days in relation to the galaxy].
Chapter 17:
The Descent of the River Ganges
(16)
In the company of Bhavânî there are ten billion women by
whom the into four expanded Supreme Lord is always being served. The
fourth expansion of the Supreme Personality, known as Sankarshana, is
to the form of Himself in the mode of darkness the source; he, Lord
S'iva, in trance meditating on Him, brings Him close as he in worship
clearly chants the following.
Chapter 18:
Prayers to the different Avatâras
(15)
In the form of Kâmadeva [or also Pradyumna, see 4.24: 35] resides
the Supreme Lord in Ketumâla according 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, land, driven out, at the end of a year expelled
[from the womb], therefrom in the worldly misfortune.
Chapter 19:
The prayers of Hanumân and Nârada
and the glories of Bhârata-varsha
(2) With
Ârshthishena [the leader of Kimpurusha] attentively listening to
the glory of his most auspicious master
and Lordship being chanted by a company of Gandharvas, does he
[Hanumân] himself chant 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 is it itself [seen from the inside] surrounded by a salty ocean that is just as
wide. Beyond that is it, like a moat outside a park, surrounded by the dvîpa of Plaksha that, named
after a plaksha tree as tall as a jambû, is stretching twice as
wide. At that tree, rising magnificently splendorous, there is a fire
found counting seven flames. The master of that dvîpa is the son of
Priyavrata named Idhmajihva, who divided his own dvîpa into seven varshas [lands] whom he named after
his seven sons when he himself retired for the yoga of self-realization.
