Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.89.47

sapta dvīpān sa-sindhūḿś ca

sapta sapta girīn atha

lokālokaḿ tathātītya

viveśa su-mahat tamaḥ

SYNONYMS

sapta — seven; dvīpān — islands; sa — with; sindhūn — their oceans; ca — and; sapta sapta — seven each; girīn — mountains; atha — then; loka-alokam — the mountain range separating light from darkness; tathā — also; atītya — crossing; viveśa — He entered; su-mahat — vast; tamaḥ — darkness.

TRANSLATION

The Lord's chariot passed over the seven islands of the middle universe, each with its ocean and its seven principal mountains. Then it crossed the Lokāloka boundary and entered the vast region of total darkness.

PURPORT

In Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrīla Prabhupāda notes, "Kṛṣṇa passed over all these planets and reached the covering of the universe. This covering is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as great darkness. This material world as a whole is described as dark. In the opening space there is sunlight, and therefore it is illuminated, but in the covering, because of the absence of sunlight, it is naturally dark."

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