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So the Vankshu flows through the MAlyavat range into Ketumala
Varsha and falls on the west into the Salt ocean.
The BhadrS. flows north from the Sumeru peak through several
mountain ranges down to Sringavat range and passes through Kuru in
to the Salt ocean.
The Alakananda flows south from the abode of Brahma through
several mountain ranges to Hema Kuta and thence to Himalaya till it
reaches Bharata Varsha (/. e. Nabhi Varsha) and at last flows through
it into the Salt ocean.
There are a thousand other rivers and a thousand other moun-
tains in each Varsha.
[The real source of the Ganges is not the melting of snow in the
Himalayas. That may be the source of the waters that swell the bed
of the Ganges, as we see it. But the Ganges is something more than
a volume of waters. There is a spiritual current underlying its waters.
That current comes from regions higher than the highest peak of the
Himalayas. Hence the great sanctity attached to it].
THE MYSTERIES OF THE VARSHAS.
SKANDHA V. CHAP. 17-19.
Of the nine Varshas, Bharata is the field of Karma (I must now
once for all remind my readers that Bharata when mentioned as
a Varsha means Nabhi Varsha, the whole of this visible earth from
the highest point of the Himalayas downwards). The other Varshas
are places of fruition of the merits of those that go to Svarga. Hence
they are called terrestrial (Bhouma) Svargas.
(Svarga is of three kinds:
(a) Divya viz. Svarga proper or Swar Loka.
() Bhouma or terrestrial and (c] Bila or Patalic. Sridhara.)
Ildvrita. The dwellers of this Varsha live for ten thousand
years of human measure. They are like Devas. They have the
vitality of ten thousand elephants. Their body is strong like the
thunderbolt They enjoy with women all their lives and only one
year before death do the women bear children. They always live as
it were in Treta Yuga.
Narayana the Mah ?? Purusha pervades all the Varshas for
their good, in different forms of His Chatur Vyuha (Vasudeva, San-
karshana, Pradyumna and Anirudha)
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