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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 20]
plakṣa-ādiṣu —in the islands headed by Plakṣa;  pañcasu —five;  puruṣāṇām —of the inhabitants;  āyuḥ —long duration of life;  indriyam —soundness of the senses;  ojaḥ —bodily strength;  sahaḥ —mental strength;  balam —physical strength;  buddhiḥ —intelligence;  vikramaḥ —bravery;  iti —thus;  ca —also;  sarveṣām —of all of them;  autpattikī —inborn;  siddhiḥ —perfection;  aviśeṣṇa —without distinction;  vartate —exists.
TRANSLATION
O King, longevity, sensory prowess, physical and mental strength, intelligence and bravery are naturally and equally manifested in all the inhabitants of the five islands headed by Plakṣadvipa.
TEXT 7
पृथः स्वसमानेनेक्षुरसोदेनावृतो यथा तथा द्वीपोऽपि शाल्मलो द्विगुणविशालः समानेन सुरोदेनावृतः परिवृङ्को ॥ ७ ॥
plakṣaḥ sva-samānenekṣu-rasodenāvṛto yathā tathā dvīpo 'pi śālmalo dvi-guṇa-viśālaḥ samānena surodenāvṛtaḥ parivṛnkte.
plakṣaḥ —the land known as Plakṣadvipa;  sva-samānena —equal in width;  ikṣu-rasa —of sugarcane juice;  udena —by an ocean;  āvṛtaḥ —surrounded;  yathā —just as;  tathā —similarly;  dvīpaḥ —another island;  api —also;  śālmalaḥ —known as Śālmala;  dvi-guṇa-viśālaḥ —twice as big;  samānena —equal in width;  surā-udena —by an ocean of liquor;  āvṛtaḥ —surrounded;  parivṛnkte —exists.
TRANSLATION
Plakṣadvipa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island—Śālmalidvipa—twice as broad as Plakṣadvipa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.