SB 5.16.12 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

चतुर्ष्वेतेषु चूतजम्बूकदम्बन्यग्रोधाश्चत्वार: पादप प्रवरा: पर्वतकेतव इवाधिसहस्रयोजनोन्नाहास्तावद् विटपविततय: शतयोजनपरिणाहा: ॥ १२ ॥

Verse text

caturṣv eteṣu cūta-jambū-kadamba-nyagrodhāś catvāraḥ pādapa-pravarāḥ parvata-ketava ivādhi-sahasra-yojanonnāhās tāvad viṭapa-vitatayaḥ śata-yojana-pariṇāhāḥ.

Synonyms

caturṣu — on the four ; eteṣu — on these mountains, beginning with Mandara ; cūta — jambū — kadamba — of trees such as the mango, rose apple and kadamba ; nyagrodhāḥ — and the banyan tree ; catvāraḥ — four kinds ; pādapa — pravarāḥ — the best of trees ; parvata — ketavaḥ — the flagstaffs on the mountains ; iva — like ; adhi — over ; sahasra — yojana — unnāhāḥ — one thousand yojanas high ; tāvat — so much also ; viṭapa — vitatayaḥ — the length of the branches ; śata — yojana — one hundred yojanas ; pariṇāhāḥ — wide .

Translation

Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas [800 miles] and a height of 1,100 yojanas [8,800 miles]. Their branches also spread to a radius of 1,100 yojanas.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains starting with Mandara are a mango tree, a rose apple (jambū) tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas and a height of 1,100 yojanas. Their branches also spread out for a length of 1,100 yojanas. Their height is over a thousand, meaning 1100 yojanas and their branches spread out that length. The width is 100 yojanas.