Markandeyapurana 60.11

60.11

merustatra mahāśailastadākhyātamilāvṛtam /
ramyakaṃ varṣamasmācca kathayiṣye nibodha tat //

Next I will tell of the continent Ramyaka; hearken thereto. And there the green-leaved Indian fig-tree[6] is the lofty tree. And the people there pass their time drinking the juice of its fruit. There the men who eat its fruit live for ten thousand years; they are pre-eminent for sexual pleasures and are pure; they are free from old age and ill odours.

I have mentioned Ilāvṛta, which is in the middle, the continent of Meru. The sun does not burn there, nor do men suffer from decay; and they do not grasp at selfish gains.[4] The rays of tḥe moon and the sun, of the constellations and 9 planets there are the sublime lustre of Meru. Mankind are born there bright as the lotus flower, fragrant as the lotus flower; they feed on the juice of the jambu fruit; and their eyes are as wide as the lotus leaf. And their life there lasts for thirteen thousand years. There is a saucer-shaped expanse in the middle of Meru[5] in Ilāvṛta; therein is the great mountain Meru; thus is made known Ilāvṛta.