Markandeyapurana 55.20

55.20

na caiteṣu manuṣyāṇāṃ vaimanasyāni kutracit /
tadevaṃ pārthivaṃ padmaṃ catuṣpatraṃ mayoditam //

Thus have I told thee of that four-leaved lotus-flower which is the earth; its leaves are Bhadrāśva, Bhārata and the other countries on the four sides. The country named Bhārata, which I have told thee of on the south, is the land of action; nowhere else is merit and sin acquired; this must he known to be the chief country, wherein everything is fixedly established.[9] And from it a man gains Svarga and final emancipation from existence, or the human world and hell, or yet again the brute-condition, O brahman.

The valleys among these mountains are exceedingly charming; they are decorated with forests and lakes of the clearest water. In them men are born who practise meritorious deeds, O brāhman. These are terrestrial Svargas, O brāhman; they surpass Svarga with their excellences. In them no fresh merit or sin accrues. Even the gods are said to enjoy merit in them. And on these mountains, Śītānta[8] and the rest, O brāhman, are the great and resplendent abodes of the Vidyādharas, the Yakṣas, the Kinnaras, the Nāgas, and the Rākṣasas, and the gods, and the Gandharvas, which possess great merit and are studded with charming groves which the gods frequent. And the lakes are charming; the breeze is pleasant at every season. Nor anywhere on these mountains do men have any kind of mental agitation.