Devanagari
तेषां नव नवद्वीपपतयोऽस्य समन्तत: ।
कर्मतन्त्रप्रणेतार एकाशीतिर्द्विजातय: ॥ १९ ॥
Verse text
teṣāṁ nava nava-dvīpa-
patayo ’sya samantataḥ
karma-tantra-praṇetāra
ekāśītir dvijātayaḥ
Synonyms
teṣām
—
of them (the one hundred sons of Ṛṣabhadeva)
;
nava
—
nine
;
nava
—
dvīpa — of the nine islands (comprising Bhārata-varṣa)
;
patayaḥ
—
the masters
;
asya
—
of this varṣa
;
samantataḥ
—
covering it entirely
;
karma
—
tantra — of the path of fruitive Vedic sacrifices
;
praṇetāraḥ
—
initiators
;
ekāśītiḥ
—
eighty-one
;
dvi
—
jātayaḥ — twice-born brāhmaṇas. .
Translation
Nine of the remaining sons of Ṛṣabhadeva became the rulers of the nine islands of Bhārata-varṣa, and they exercised complete sovereignty over this planet. Eighty-one sons became twice-born brāhmaṇas and helped initiate the Vedic path of fruitive sacrifices [karma-kāṇḍa].
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Nine of the remaining sons of Ṛṣabhadeva became the rulers of the nine islands of Bhārata-varṣa and they exercised complete sovereignty over this planet. Eighty-one sons became brāhmaṇas and helped initiate the Vedic path of karma.
Among the sons of Ṛṣabha, nine became rulers of nine islands such as Brahmāvarta within Bhārata-varṣa. Eighty-one sons became brāhmaṇas who started the path of karma.
Purport
The nine
dvīpas,
or islands, ruled by nine sons of Ṛṣabhadeva are the nine
varṣas
of Jambudvīpa, namely Bhārata, Kinnara, Hari, Kuru, Hiraṇmaya, Ramyaka, Ilāvṛta, Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla.