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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 8, Ch. 2]
kṣīrodenāvṛtaḥ śrīmān yojanāyutam ucchritaḥ
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; āsū—there was; giri-varaḥ—a very big mountain; rājan—O King; tri-kūṭaḥ—Trikūṭa; iti—thus; viśrutaḥ—celebrated; kṣīra-udena—by the ocean of milk; āvṛtaḥ—surrounded; śrīmān—very beautiful; yojana—a measurement of eight miles; ayutam—ten thousand; ucchritaḥ—very high.
TRANSLATION
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, there is a very large mountain called Trikūṭa. It is ten thousand yojanas [eighty thousand miles] high. Being surrounded by the ocean of milk, it is very beautifully situated.
TEXTS 2-3
तावता विस्तृतः पर्यक् त्रिभिः शृङ्गैः पयोनिधिम् । दिशः स्वं रोचयन्नास्ते रौप्यायसहिरण्मयैः ॥ २ ॥ अन्यैश्च कक्रुमः सर्वा रत्नधातुविचित्रितैः । नानाद्रुमलतागुल्मैर्निर्धोषैर्निर्झराम्भसाम् ॥ ३ ॥
tāvatā vistṛtaḥ paryak tribhiḥ śrīngaiḥ payo-nidhim diśaḥ khaṁ rocayann āste raupyāyasa-hiraṇmayaiḥ
anyaiś ca kakubhaḥ sarvā ratna-dhātu-vicitritaiḥ nānā-druma-latā-gulmair nirghoṣair nirjharāmbhasām
tāvatā—in that way; vistṛtaḥ—length and breadth (eighty thousand miles); paryak—all around; tribhiḥ—with three; śrīngaiḥ—peaks; payaḥ-nidhim—situated on an island in the ocean of milk; diśaḥ—all