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<div class="heading">For an explanation of sapta-dvīpa, see Madhya-līlā, Chapter Twenty, verse 218, and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapters Sixteen and Twenty. In the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi, Chapter One (Golādhyāya), in the Bhuvana-kośa section, the nine khaṇḍas are mentioned.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 2.10|CC Antya 2.10, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">People from all over the universe, including the seven islands, the nine khaṇḍas, the planets of the demigods, Gandharvaloka and Kinnaraloka, would go there in the forms of human beings.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>For an explanation of sapta-dvīpa, see Madhya-līlā, Chapter Twenty, verse 218, and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapters Sixteen and Twenty. In the Siddhānta-śiromaṇi, Chapter One (Golādhyāya), in the Bhuvana-kośa section, the nine khaṇḍas are mentioned as follows:</p>
:aindraṁ kaśeru sakalaṁ kila tāmraparṇam
:anyad gabhastimad ataś ca kumārikākhyam
:nāgaṁ ca saumyam iha vāruṇam antya-khaṇḍaṁ
:gāndharva-saṁjñam iti bhārata-varṣa-madhye
<p>"Within Bhārata-varṣa, there are nine khaṇḍas. They are known as (1) Aindra, (2) Kaśeru, (3) Tāmraparṇa, (4) Gabhastimat, (5) Kumārikā, (6) Nāga, (7) Saumya, (8) Vāruṇa and (9) Gāndharva."</p>
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