Bhuvana Koia : Description of Seven Dvipas : Mountain ranges - Verse 41

Sages, Siddhas and ascetics sanctified by meditation on Brahman inhabit there. They are delighted, free from all distresses and sorrows and have their Rajas attribute subdued. is regarded as the pericarp of the lotus in the form of the earth and the mountain-ranges as the filaments. M. Ali locates most of them and shows that the information of the Puranic-writer is fairly accurate and not imaginary {Vide—The Geog. of the Puranas Chs. v-viii). 300 Kurma Purana