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104
Harivamsha Purana
These are also eight hundred and eighty-four thousand parts, equal to Jambudvipa, which are the future of Pushkaradvipa. ||18|| The island, also known as Dhaataki Khand, surrounds the salt ocean. It is four lakh yojanas in circumference and shaped like a ring. ||18|| The inner circumference is five lakh, the middle nine lakh, and the outer thirteen lakh yojanas in the Dhaataki Khand. ||19|| The circumference of the eastern inner circumference is said to be fifteen lakh, eighty-one thousand, one hundred and forty-nine yojanas. ||49|| The middle circumference is twenty-eight lakh, forty-six thousand, fifty yojanas. ||492|| The outer circumference is forty-one lakh, ten thousand, nine hundred and sixty-one yojanas. ||493|| In this island, there are two Meru mountains, one to the east and one to the west of the Mahameru of Jambudvipa, and two Isva-shaped mountains, one to the south and one to the north, dividing it. ||494|| These two Isva-shaped mountains are one thousand yojanas wide, four lakh yojanas long, equal to the width of the island, and equal to the Nishadha mountain in height and depth. ||495|| In this Dhaataki Khand, which is equal to the island, there are seven regions, starting with Bharat, and six Kula mountains, starting with Himavan, in relation to each Meru. ||496|| All the mountains, rivers, and lakes here are named after the mountains, rivers, and lakes of Jambudvipa, and have the same height and depth, but their width is double. ||497|| The mountains and regions of this island are like the spokes of a chariot wheel and the space between them on the inside, and like a razor on the outside, meaning that their inner part is narrow and their outer part is wide. ||498|| In this Dhaataki Khand, there are one lakh, seventy-eight thousand, eight hundred and forty-two yojanas of land blocked by mountains. ||499|| The inner circumference of the Bharat region is six thousand, six hundred and fourteen yojanas, and
1. Parmandar M. | 2. -Rudham M. |