SB 5.16.12
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 12
- caturṣv eteṣu cūta-jambū-kadamba-nyagrodhāś catvāraḥ
- pādapa-pravarāḥ parvata-ketava ivādhi-sahasra-yojanonnāhās
- tāvad viṭapa-vitatayaḥ śata-yojana-pariṇāhāḥ
SYNONYMS
caturṣu—on the four; eteṣu—on these mountains, beginning with Mandara; cūta-jambū-kadamba—of trees such as the mango, rose apple and kadamba; nyagrodhāḥ—and the banyan tree; catvāraḥ—four kinds; pādapa-pravarāḥ—the best of trees; parvata-ketavaḥ—the flagstaffs on the mountains; iva—like; adhi—over; sahasra-yojana-unnāhāḥ—one thousand yojanas high; tāvat—so much also; viṭapa-vitatayaḥ—the length of the branches; śata-yojana—one hundred yojanas; pariṇāhāḥ—wide.
TRANSLATION
Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas [800 miles] and a height of 1,100 yojanas [8,800 miles]. Their branches also spread to a radius of 1,100 yojanas.