Markandeyapurana 60
English (machine translation) 60
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- 60.15 — 2 parts
60.1
Mārkaṇḍeya said: / But that realm which is Kimpuruṣa, that I shall describe, O twice-born, / where the life span of well-formed men is ten thousand [years],
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where men as well as women are free from disease and grief; / and a very great plakṣa tree grove is spoken of there, resembling Nandana.
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Always drinking the juice of its fruits, the men / are endowed with steadfast youth, and the women are fragrant as blue lotuses.
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Beyond Kimpuruṣa, Harivarṣa is spoken of; / the people born there resemble gold.
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All of them have fallen from the world of the gods, and all have the form of gods; / in Harivarṣa, all men drink auspicious sugarcane juice.
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Old age does not afflict them there, nor do they ever decay; / they live for that long a time, free from illness.
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The central region of Meru has been spoken of by me as Ilāvṛta; / the sun does not burn there, nor do those humans grow old.
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The rays of the moon and the sun, / of the asterisms and the planets, have no effect there; the supreme luster belongs to Meru.
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Radiant like lotuses, smelling like lotuses, eating the juice of the rose-apple fruit, / men are born there with eyes as long as lotus petals.
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There too, their lifespan is thirteen thousand years; / the plateau has the shape of a shallow dish around Mount Meru in Ilāvṛta.
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Meru is the great mountain there; thus is Ilāvṛta described. / Beyond this, I shall describe the Ramyaka realm; listen to that.
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There too is a tall banyan tree with green leaves; / drinking the juice of its fruits as well, they indeed sustain themselves.
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The men there, enjoying its fruit, have a lifespan of ten thousand years; / they are pure, delighting chiefly in sexual pleasure, free from old age and foul odors.
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Beyond that, to the north, is the realm known by name as Hiraṇmaya, / where the river Hiraṇvatī flows, brilliant with abundant lotuses.
60.15
The people born there are endowed with great strength and splendor; / they are large-bodied, possessed of great vitality, wealthy, and handsome to look upon.
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Thus ends the sixtieth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Realms Beginning with Kimpuruṣa', in the glorious Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa.
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Sixty-first chapter - 61
Translations (1)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
Linked texts (1)
- Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit