plakṣaḥ - the land known as Plakṣadvīpa; sva-samānena - equal in width; ikṣu-rasa - of sugarcane juice; udena - by an ocean; āvṛtaḥ - surrounded; yathā - just as; tathā - similarly; dvīpaḥ - another island; api - also; śālmalaḥ - known as Śālmala; dvi-guṇa-viśālaḥ - twice as big; samānena - equal in width; surā-udena - by an ocean of liquor; āvṛtaḥ - surrounded; parivṛṅkte - exists.

Plakṣadvīpa is surrounded by an ocean of sugarcane juice, equal in breadth to the island itself. Similarly, there is then another island — Sālmalīdvīpa — twice as broad as Plakṣadvīpa [400,000 yojanas, or 3,200,000 miles] and surrounded by an equally broad body of water called Surāsāgara, the ocean that tastes like liquor.