Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.56.11

dine dine svarna-bharan

astau sa srjati prabho

durbhiksa-mary-aristani

sarpadhi-vyadhayo 'subhah

na santi mayinas tatra

yatraste 'bhyarcito manih

SYNONYMS

dine dine -- day after day; svarna -- of gold; bharan -- bharas (a measure of weight); astau -- eight; sah -- it; srjati -- would produce; prabho -- O master (Pariksit Maharaja); durbhiksa -- famine; mari -- untimely deaths; aristani -- catastrophes; sarpa -- snake (bites); adhi -- mental disorders; vyadhayah -- diseases; asubhah -- inauspicious; na santi -- there are none; mayinah -- cheaters; tatra -- there; yatra -- where; aste -- it is present; abhyarcitah -- properly worshiped; manih -- the gem.

TRANSLATION

Each day the gem would produce eight bharas of gold, my dear Prabhu, and the place in which it was kept and properly worshiped would be free of calamities such as famine or untimely death, and also of evils like snake bites, mental and physical disorders and the presence of deceitful persons.

PURPORT

Srila Sridhara Svami gives the following sastric reference concerning the bhara:

caturbhir vrihibhir gunjam

gunjah panca panam panan

astau dharanam astau ca

karsam tams caturah palam

tulam pala-satam prahur

bharah syad vimsatis tulah

"Four rice grains are called one gunja; five gunjas, one pana; eight panas, one karsa; four karsas, one pala; and one hundred palas, one tula. Twenty tulas make up one bhara." Since there are about 3,700 grains of rice in an ounce, the Syamantaka jewel was producing approximately 170 pounds of gold every day.

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