ज्योतिष्मतः कुशद्वीपे सप्त पुत्रान् शृणुष्व तान्॥ ३५ ॥
jyotiṣmataḥ kuśadvīpe sapta putrān śṛṇuṣva tān
English
produced by its fluttering leaves, spreads joy. Tlie holy lands of this insular continent were inhabited by people of four castes. There are seven sacred rivers whiclt rempve all sins— they are Sukumari, Kamari, Nalini, Dhenuka, Ikshu, ?Benuka and Gavasti. Besides these seven rivers there are numerous rivulets. There are hundreds and thousands of- mountains. People residing in Jalada varsa pertake of the waters of these rivers. They seem to have come down from heaven to earth. In tliose divisions ther« is no decrease of virtue ; there is no quarrel and there is no deviation from honesty. Tbe four castes, Nriga, Magadha, Manasa ahd Mandaga core-spoi^d respectively to Brahmmanas, Kshatryas, Vaisayas and Sudras. They worship Vishnu, in the form of the sun, having controll- ed their minds with diverse pious observances. SSka- dwipa, Maitreya, is girt by the sea of millc on all sides, as by a bracelet, which is of the same dimension as the continent. The sea of milk, Brahman, is again enclircled on all sides by the insular continent of Pushkara, which is twice the extcnt of Saka-dwipa. The king Savala of Pushkara had two sons ; one was named Mahavira and the other Dhataki ; and the two varsas were named after them. great sage, there is only one mighty range of mountains, named MSnosattara, which runs in a circular direction like an armlet. Itis fifty thousand Yoyanas in height and the same in breadth, circular on all sides, and divides the island in the middle, as if like a bracelet into two divisions. And being divided into two portions by that mountain they are also of a circular form. There the people live for ten thousand years, freed from desease, sorrow, anger and jealousy. Their is neither virtue nor vice, killer nor slain : their is no jealousy, envy iear, hatred, malice, nor any moral delinquency. The varsa stiuate on the oulside of Manosattara is called Mahavira and the one stiuate inside is called Dhataki: they are both iseqented by the celestials and Danavas. And in th»t island of Pushkara there is netfcher truth nor falsehood. And in tbat