Verse 12

⁷As Plaksa is covered by an ocean of sugarcane juice equal to itself, so the island of Salmala, twice as broad, is covered by an ocean of wine equal to itself, and itself encircles the ocean before it. ⁸There grows a silk-cotton tree as tall as the plaksa, and in it, they say, the king of birds has his home, he who belongs to the Bhagavan and is praised in the metres. That tree is taken as the name by which the island is called. ⁹The lord of that island, Yajnabahu son of Priyavrata, divided among his seven sons the seven regions that bear their names: Surocana, Saumanasya, Ramanaka, Devavarsa, Paribhadra, Apyayana and Avijnata.

¹⁰In them seven region-mountains and seven rivers are known: Svarasa, Satasrnga, Vamadeva, Kunda, Mukunda, Puspavarsa and Sahasrasruti; Anumati, Sinivali, Sarasvati, Kuhu, Rajani, Nanda and Raka. ¹¹The men of those regions, called Srutadhara, Viryadhara, Vasundhara and Isandhara, worship with the Veda the Bhagavan made of the Veda, the moon, the self. ¹²Sharing out the dark fortnight and the bright between the fathers and the gods by his own rays: may the moon, who is king and who is food for all creatures, be ours.