SB 5.20.35 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

यावन्मानसोत्तरमेर्वोरन्तरं तावती भूमि: काञ्चन्यन्याऽऽदर्शतलोपमा यस्यां प्रहित: पदार्थो न कथञ्चित्पुन: प्रत्युपलभ्यते तस्मात्सर्वसत्त्वपरिहृतासीत् ॥ ३५ ॥

Verse text

yāvan mānasottara-mervor antaraṁ tāvatī bhūmiḥ kāṣcany anyādarśa-talopamā yasyāṁ prahitaḥ padārtho na kathaṣcit punaḥ pratyupalabhyate tasmāt sarva-sattva-parihṛtāsīt.

Synonyms

yāvat — as much as ; mānasottara — mervoḥ antaram — the land between Mānasottara and Meru (beginning from the middle of Mount Sumeru) ; tāvatī — that much ; bhūmiḥ — land ; kāṣcanī — made of gold ; anyā — another ; ādarśa — tala — upamā — whose surface is just like the surface of a mirror ; yasyām — on which ; prahitaḥ — dropped ; padārthaḥ — a thing ; na — not ; kathaṣcit — in any way ; punaḥ — again ; pratyupalabhyate — is found ; tasmāt — therefore ; sarva — sattva — by all living entities ; parihṛtā — abandoned ; āsīt — was .

Translation

Beyond the ocean of sweet water is a tract of land as broad as the area between the middle of Mount Sumeru and the boundary of Mānasottara Mountain. In that tract of land there are many living beings. Beyond it, extending to Lokāloka Mountain, is another land, which is made of gold. Because of its golden surface, it reflects light like the surface of a mirror, and any physical article that falls on that land can never be perceived again. All living entities, therefore, have abandoned that golden land.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Beyond the ocean of sweet water is a tract of land as broad as the area between the middle of Meru and the middle Mānasottara Mountain. It is a land of gold, whose surface is like a mirror. Any object dropped there cannot be seen again. Therefore all living entities have abandoned this place. Beyond the fresh water ocean was Lokāloka Mountain. What comes before the mountain and after the ocean? From the middle of Meru to the middle of Mānasottra the distance is 15,750,000 yojanas. This is the width of this land, the golden land, extending from the fresh water ocean to Lokāloka Mountain. It is abandoned by all living entities.