priyavrata, Seven Dvipas (Hindu cosmology)

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The ancient Hindu cosmology:In this description one Yojana is equal to 8 miles. Different texts give different figures.http://www.bhagavadgitausa.com/HINDU%20VIEW%20OF%20THE%20PHYSICAL%20WORLD.htmHTML clipboardAccording to Bhagavada Purana,

Agnidhara1, Idhmajihva2,

Yajnabahu3, Mahavira4,

Hiranyareta5, Medhatithi6,

Ghrtaprstha7, Savana8, and Vitihotra9, Kavi10 are names of the seven (out of ten sons) who inherited the continents from Priyavrta. The three sons, Mahavira4,

Savana8, and

Kavi10 were avowed inveterate Bramacharins (celibate seekers of Bramah Vidya and god). (Priyavrata married Barhjismati, daughter of Visvakarma, the architect of the gods who gave him ten sons and a daughter Urjasvati.) Priyavrata had, by another spouse, three sons: Uttama, Tamasa, and Raivata who were in charge of three Manvantras, named after them.

 

According to Vishnu Purana, Priyavrata and

Kamya, the daughter of

Kardama, had two daughters, Samrat and

Kukshi, and ten sons, Agnidhara, Idhmajihva, Yajnabahu, Hiranyareta, Ghrtaprstha, Medhatithi, and Vitihotra, who inherited the globe and three other celibate sons.

CREATION AND DISSOLUTION for the story on Kardama.

Lineage: Brahma-->Swayambhuva Manu-->Priyavrata.

Mahavira, Savana, and Kavi were not interested in material wealth and devoted themselves to the Lord. Priyavrata, having ruled the globe for 1.1 billion years (1,100,000,000), divided the earth into seven parts by the rut left by the chariot wheels, which resulted in seven continents and seven seas. Thus, the earth is divided into seven Dvipas (Continents, primary divisions) ruled by seven sons of the monarch.

Dvipa = Dvi + ap = two + water = land within the two distributaries = Island.

The globe (Jumbudvipa) has the round configuration of seven concentric circles of a lotus flower with a diameter of 100,000 Yojanas (800,000 miles). Each Dvipa (continent) consist of nine

Varsas (countries, Subdivisions).

Varsha = Country; division of the earth by nine mountain ranges; rain; year.) Each Varsa is 72,000 miles in extent. In the epicenter of the surface of the globe is present the inner Varsa, Ilavrta, which again in its center has the principal mountain range, the king of Mountains, Meru, the Axis Mundi. Meru = Sumeru = Very exalted, the mountain of the gods. It appears that Sumeru and Sumeria are cognate. Sumeru reaches into the firmament by height of 672,000 miles. Consider Himalayas (Mount Everest) reaching a height of only 5.5 miles (29,035 feet). The moon is at the distance of 238,906 miles from earth. The flat top of the Mount Meru is 2.81 times the distance of the moon from earth. Mount Meru is made of pure gold. It forms the circular pericarp of the lotus-like globe, in which the base (lower end) of the pericarp lies 16,000 yojanas (128,000 miles) below the earth; the base measures also16,000 Yojanas in diameter. The corolla of the mountain measures 32,000 Yojanas (256,000 miles). On the top of the Mount Meru is the City of Brahma. Veeraswamy Krishnaraj

 

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