Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

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भूर्लोकः कल्पितः पद्भ्यां भुवर्लोकोऽस्य नाभितः
स्वर्लोकः कल्पितो मूर्ध्ना इति वा लोककल्पना

bhūrlokaḥ kalpitaḥ padbhyāṁ
bhuvarloko ’sya nābhitaḥ
svarlokaḥ kalpito mūrdhnā
iti vā loka-kalpanā

WORD BY WORD

bhūrlokaḥ — the entire planetary system from Pātāla to the earthly planetary system; kalpitaḥ — imagined; padbhyām — situated on the legs; bhuvarlokaḥ — the Bhuvarloka planetary system; asya — of the universal form of the Lord; nābhitaḥ — out of the navel abdomen; svarlokaḥ — the higher planetary system, beginning with the heavenly planets; kalpitaḥ — imagined; mūrdhnā — from the chest to the head; iti — thus; — either; loka — the planetary systems; kalpanā — imagination;

TRANSLATION

Others may divide the whole planetary system into three divisions, namely the lower planetary systems on the legs [up to the earth], the middle planetary systems on the navel, and the upper planetary systems [Svarloka] from the chest to the head of the Supreme Personality.

PURPORT

The three divisions of the complete planetary systems are here mentioned; fourteen are imagined by others, and that is also explained.

Thus end the purports by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda of the Second Canto, Fifth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled The Cause of All Causes.

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