तमुत्थितं वीक्ष्य कुलाचलं पुन: समुद्यता निर्मथितुं सुरासुरा: । दधार पृष्ठेन स लक्षयोजन- प्रस्तारिणा द्वीप इवापरो महान् ॥ ९ ॥
tam utthitam viksya kulacalam punah samudyata nirmathitum surasurah dadhara prsthena sa laksa-yojana- prastarina dvipa ivaparo mahan
- tam
- that mountain
- utthitam
- lifted
- viksya
- observing
- kulacalam
- known as Mandara
- punah
- again
- samudyatah
- enlivened
- nirmathitum
- to churn the Ocean of Milk
- sura-asurah
- the demigods and the demons
- dadhara
- carried
- prsthena
- by the back
- sah
- the Supreme Lord
- laksa-yojana
- one hundred thousand yojanas (eight hundred thousand miles)
- prastarina
- extending
- dvipah
- a big island
- iva
- like
- aparah
- another
- mahan
- very big
When the demigods and demons saw that Mandara Mountain had been lifted, they were enlivened and encouraged to begin churning again. The mountain rested on the back of the great tortoise, which extended for eight hundred thousand miles like a large island.