There is then another island - Salmalidvipa - twice as broad as Plaksadvipa (400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles) and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surasagara, the ocean that tastes like liquor
Expressions researched:
"Similarly, there is then another island"
|"Sālmalīdvīpa"
|"twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa"
|"400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles"
|"and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 5
Similarly, there is then another island—Sālmalīdvīpa—twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.
Plakṣadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island—Sālmalīdvīpa—twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.
- There Is
- Another
- Island
- Salmalidvipa
- Twice
- Broad
- Plaksadvipa
- Yojanas
- Miles
- Surrounded
- Equal
- Body
- Water
- Named - called
- Ocean
- Taste
- Likeness
- Liquor
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Page Title: | There is then another island - Salmalidvipa - twice as broad as Plaksadvipa (400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles) and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surasagara, the ocean that tastes like liquor |
Compiler: | Iswaraj |
Created: | 2018-05-16, 16:20:28 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=1, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=0, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 1 |