ततोऽधस्ताच्छतयोजनान्तर इयं पृथिवी यावद्धंसभासश्येनसुपर्णादय: पतत्त्रिप्रवरा उत्पतन्तीति ॥ ६ ॥
tato ’dhastac chata-yojanantara iyam prthivi yavad dhamsa-bhasa-syena-suparnadayah patattri-pravara utpatantiti.
- tatah adhastat
- beneath that
- sata-yojana
- of one hundred yojanas
- antare
- by an interval
- iyam
- this
- prthivi
- plane earth
- yavat
- as high as
- hamsa
- swans
- bhasa
- vultures
- syena
- eagles
- suparna-adayah
- and other birds
- patattri-pravarah
- the chief among birds
- utpatanti
- can fly
- iti
- thus.
Below the abodes of the Yaksas and Raksasas by a distance of 100 yojanas (800 miles) is the plane earth. Its upper limits extend as high as swans, hawks, eagles and similar large birds can fly.