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.