གླིང་ཕྲན་བརྒྱད་

JH-ENG

eight small continents [of traditional Buddhist cosmology]

JH-SKT

{Rigzin} aSTa kSudradvIpAni

OT

[424] ri rab kyi mtshams bzhir chaD pa'i lus dang ལུས་འཕགས་/ rnga yab dang rnga yab gzhan/ g.yo ldan dang lam mchog 'gro/ sgra mi snyan dang sgra mi snyan gyi zla ste brgyad/ ...

JH-C

Comment: There are eight smaller continents in Buddhist cosmology (gling phran brgyad) that, two each, are next to four large continents: In the center, is the monarch of mountains, ri rab (meru). 

The four continents and eight smaller continents are 

(1) ཤར་ལུས་འཕགས་པོ་ (videha), the eastern continent "land of [those with] superior/large bodies" with lus (deha) and ལུས་འཕགས་ (videha); 

(2) ལྷོ་འཛམ་བུ་གླིང་(jambudvIpa), the southern continent "Jambu-tree land" with rnga yab (cAmara) and rnga yab gzhan (aparacAmara); 

(3) nub ba blang spyod (godanIya) the western continent "land of using cattle" with g.yo ldan (sAthA) and lam mchog 'gro (uttaramantriNa); 

(4) byang sgra mi snyan (kuru), the northern continent "land of unpleasant sound" with sgra mi snyan (kurava) and sgra mi snyan kyi zla (kaurava). Surrounding all of these is an outer rim of iron mountains.

YOGA

antar-dvIpAH-aSTau

JV

eight islands (lus, lus 'phags, rnga yab, rnga yab zhan, g.yo ldan, lam mchog 'dro, sgra mi snyan, sgra mi snyan gyi zla)

IW

8 subcontinents [Mount Meru kyi mtsams bzhir chad pa'i lus dang lus 'phags, rnga yab dang rnga yab gzhan, gyo ldan dang lam mchog 'gro, sgra mi snyan dang sgra mi snyan gyi zla

RY

Eight subcontinents. Smaller continents surrounding Mount Sumeru in pairs flanking each of the four continents: Deha and Videha, Chamara and Upachamara, Shatha and Uttara mantrina, Kurava and Kaurava. the eight subcontinents. see གླིང་བཞི་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་ for enumeration