[Advaita-l] Jambudveepa in our saMkalpa

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

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> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 11:17:27 +0530
> Subject: [Advaita-l] Jambudveepa in our saMkalpa
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> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
> 
> The below is a forwarded one...I found it as an interesting reading. Hope 
> you too...
> 
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
> 
> 
> JAMBUDWIPA AND THE SANKALPA
> 

Bhaskar, articles like these are always disappointing, because they go off on a tangent about Aryans,
Western missionaries, Indian government and education etc. After reading through it, I could not find
the author proposing a definitive answer to the question. All the northern continents may be part of
jambUdvIpa, but America and Europe are nevertheless not part of bhAratavarsha, bharatakhaNDa.
So, what are they? I find nothing and I wonder if the author does have an answer.
 
For what it is worth, all south Indian purohitas in the US whom I've seen say the saMkalpa as kraunca-
dvIpe, ramaNaka-varshe aindra-khaNDe, no matter whether they are Srauta-smArta or SrIvaishNava or
mAdhva. I have no idea what other traditions transplanted here say and I have no idea what they say
in Europe.
 
Vidyasankar