जम्बू नाम नदी मेरुमन्दरशिखरादयुतयोजनादवनितले निपतन्ती दक्षिणेना
त्मानं यावदिलावृतमुपस्यन्दयति ॥१९॥
evaá¹ jambÅ«-phalÄnÄm atyucca-nipÄta-viśīrṇÄnÄm anasthi-prÄyÄṇÄm ibha-kÄya-nibhÄnÄá¹ rasena jambÅ« nÄma nadÄ« meru-mandara-Å›ikharÄd ayuta-yojanÄd avani-tale nipatantÄ« daká¹£iṇenÄtmÄnaá¹ yÄvad ilÄvá¹›tam upasyandayati
evam - similarly; jambÅ«-phalÄnÄm - of the fruits called jambÅ« (the rose apple); ati-ucca-nipÄta - because of falling from a great height; viśīrṇÄnÄm - which are broken to pieces; anasthi-prÄyÄṇÄm - having very small seeds; ibha-kÄya-nibhÄnÄm - and which are as large as the bodies of elephants; rasena - by the juice; jambÅ« nÄma nadÄ« - a river named JambÅ«-nadÄ«; meru-mandara-Å›ikharÄt - from the top of Merumandara Mountain; ayuta-yojanÄt - ten thousand yojanas high; avani-tale - on the ground; nipatantÄ« - falling; daká¹£iṇena - on the southern side; ÄtmÄnam - itself; yÄvat - the whole; ilÄvá¹›tam - IlÄvá¹›ta-vará¹£a; upasyandayati - flows through.
Similarly, the fruits of the jambÅ« tree, which are full of pulp and have very small seeds, fall from a great height and break to pieces. Those fruits are the size of elephants, and the juice gliding from them becomes a river named JambÅ«-nadÄ«. This river falls a distance of 10,000 yojanas, from the summit of Merumandara to the southern side of IlÄvá¹›ta, and floods the entire land of IlÄvá¹›ta with juice.
We can only imagine how much juice there might be in a fruit that is the size of an elephant but has a very tiny seed. Naturally the juice from the broken jambÅ« fruits forms waterfalls and floods the entire land of IlÄvá¹›ta. That juice produces an immense quantity of gold, as will be explained in the next verses.
