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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.2.1

श्रीशुक उवाच आसीद् गिरिवरो राजंस्त्रिकूट इति विश्रुत: । क्षीरोदेनावृत: श्रीमान्योजनायुतमुच्छ्रित: ॥ १ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca
[shree-shuka uvaacha]
āsīd girivaro rājaṁs
[aaseed girivaro raajams]
trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ
[trikoota iti vishrutah]
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān
[ksheerodenaavritah shreemaan]
yojanāyutam ucchritaḥ
[yojanaayutam uchchritah]
Word-for-word
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said āsīt — there was girivaraḥ — a very big mountain rājan — O King tri-kūṭaḥ — Trikūṭa iti — thus viśrutaḥ — celebrated kṣīra-udena — by the Ocean of Milk āvṛtaḥ — surrounded śrīmān — very beautiful yojana — a measurement of eight miles ayutam — ten thousand ucchritaḥ — very high.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śrī-śuka uvāca
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
āsīd girivaro rājaṁs
āsīt
there was
girivaraḥ
a very big mountain
rājan
O King
trikūṭa iti viśrutaḥ
tri-kūṭaḥ
Trikūṭa
iti
thus
viśrutaḥ
celebrated
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān
kṣīra-udena
by the Ocean of Milk
āvṛtaḥ
surrounded
śrīmān
very beautiful
yojanāyutam ucchritaḥ
yojana
a measurement of eight miles
ayutam
ten thousand
ucchritaḥ
very high.
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, there is a very large mountain called Trikūṭa. It is ten thousand yojanas [eighty thousand miles] high. Being surrounded by the Ocean of Milk, it is very beautifully situated.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King! There was a beautiful, huge mountain called Trikūṭa, ten thousand yojanas high, surrounded by the ocean of milk. The Second Chapter describes the garden and lake at Trikūṭa Mountain, and Gajendra’s remembrance of the Lord when attacked by the crocodile. Āsīt means “there was.”
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Personal Guidance
Trikūṭa Mountain stands eighty thousand miles tall, surrounded by the Ocean of Milk. Hearing such cosmic descriptions stretches our shrunken sense of reality. The universe the Bhāgavata describes is vastly larger and more wondrous than the small world our senses report.
Reflection Questions
  • How willing am I to let scripture expand my picture of reality beyond what I can verify?
  • What changes in me when I admit the cosmos is bigger and stranger than I imagined?
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