Verse 6

¹From here on the division into regions of Plaksa and the other islands is set out, by their measure, their marks and their arrangement. ²This island of Jambu, as broad as its own measure, is ringed by the ocean of salt water, as Meru is ringed by the island named for the jambu tree; and the salt ocean in turn is enclosed by the island named for the plaksa, twice as broad, as a moat is enclosed by the garden outside it. On that island a plaksa tree of gold stands up, the size of the jambu, and gives the island its name; there Fire is worshipped, whose tongues are seven. Its lord was Idhmajihva, son of Priyavrata. He divided his island into seven regions, gave them over to his seven sons after whom the regions are named, and himself came to rest in the yoga of the self.

³The regions are Siva, Yavasa, Subhadra, Santa, Ksema, Amrta and Abhaya. In them seven mountains and seven rivers are known. ⁴The boundary mountains are Manikuta, Vajrakuta, Indrasena, Jyotismat, Suparna, Hiranyasthiva and Meghamala. The great rivers are Aruna, Nrmna, Angirasi, Savitri, Suprabhata, Rtambhara and Satyambhara. Touching their water shakes off passion and darkness. The four classes there are called Hamsa, Patanga, Urdhvayana and Satyanga; they live a thousand years, and in their looks and their begetting they are like the gods. With the threefold knowledge they worship the sun, the gate of heaven, the Bhagavan made of the three Vedas, the self.

⁵We ask for the sun, the self, which is the ancient form of Visnu, of what is true and what is right, of Brahman, of the deathless and of death. ⁶In Plaksa and the four islands after it, length of life, the senses, vigour, endurance, strength, understanding and daring come to all men alike, by birth and without difference.