[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Mahābhārata and its versions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) › [The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) › 6.7.52 # The Great Epic of the Bhārata dynasty 6.7.52 Mahābhārata 6.7.52 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.7.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7.52) yāṃ tu pṛcchasi mā rājandivyāmetāṃ śaśākṛtim | pārśve śaśasya dve varṣe ubhaye dakṣiṇottare | karṇau tu nāgadvīpaṃ ca kaśyapadvīpameva ca || 52 || > "'These then, O great king, are the seven Varshas of the world as they are divided. Diverse creatures, mobile and immobile, are placed in them all. Diverse kinds of prosperity, both providential and human, are noticeable in them. They are incapable of being counted. Those desirous, however, of their own good believe (all this), I have now told thee of that delightful region (of land) of the form of a hare about which thou hadst asked me. At the extremities of that region are the two Varshas, viz., one on the north and the other on the south. Those two also have now been told to thee. Then again the two islands Naga-dwipa and Kasyapa-dwipa are the two ears of this region of the form of a hare. The beautiful mountains of Maleya, O king, having rocks like plates of copper, form another (prominent) part of Jamvudwipa that having its shape resembling a hare.'" > — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - [Previous: 6.7.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7.51) - [Next: 6.7.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7.53) - [Up: 6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7) ## Translations (1) - [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa~en-ganguli.6.6.4) — Kisari Mohan Ganguli 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Bhāratabhāvadīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa!nilakantha.6.6.55) — Nīlakaṇṭha Caturdhara 1650, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.6.6.56) — Sanskrit - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.6.55) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.6.7.52) · Pramāṇa