The compound word bhūgola

[Nagaraj Paturi]

One Prof? Toke Lindegaard Knudsen enquired the following on Infology list. I thought it has good data and it is a good enquiry. Sharing it for discussion, 

Dear all,

I’m interested in the compound word bhūgola (and related terms, such as bhuvo golam, dharāgola, mahīgola, etc.). The word gola means ‘ball’ or ‘globe,’ and the compound word bhūgola means ‘the earth’s sphere.’

The compound word bhūgola is used in the sense of ‘earth-sphere,’ ‘the earth’s sphere’ in astronomical texts since at least the Āryabhaṭīya (composed in 499 CE).

I’m looking for uses of this compound word in texts and contexts other than the astronomical tradition of India. So far I’m aware of these instances:

(1) The compound word bhūgola occurs in the some purāṇas. The Bhāgavatapurāṇa uses it five times; the Narasiṃhapurāṇa uses it twice; and the Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa uses the equivalent term mahīgola once.

(2) Four philosophical texts use the compound word:
  (a) Mokṣopaya (10th century) has dharāgola and bhūgola (Roland Steiner kindly helped me with the references from this work)
  (b) Tattvacintāmaṇi (12th century)
  (c) Nyāyasudhā (14th century)
  (d) Saṃkhyasūtravivaraṇa (a late commentary)

(3) The Gopālatāpanyupaniṣad (13th century or later) uses the compound word bhūgolacakra.

(4) The Gītagovinda (12th century) uses the compound word once.

(5) The Harivaṃśa uses it in one verse (a star-verse).

(6) Some Bengal Vaiṣṇava works use the compound word; for example, the Gopālacampū of Jīva Gosvāmin (16th century) uses bhūmigola once; Rūpa Gosvāmin (16th century) uses the compound word as well.

Does any of you know of other instances of the compound word bhūgola outside of the astronomical tradition? I’d greatly appreciate learning of instances I’ve missed.

Many thanks in advance.

With all best wishes,

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Intro to  

Dr  Toke Lindegaard Knudsen

https://www.math.ku.dk/english/about/news/toke_knudsen/

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Nagaraj Paturi

 

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BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

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[G S S Murthy]

Vedantadesika (13th-14th Century) has written a short work, bhUgolanirNayaH, describing the traditional geography. I am mentioning off-hand and subject to correction.

Regards,

Murthy  

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and also my Sanskrit blog :

http://simplesanskrit.blogspot.com/

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[Dr.C.S.R. Prabhu]

In many other texts such as Bhagavata I have seen  words Bhugola and Bhumandala in their  Telugu poetry translations over  several centuries .

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[pravesh vyas]

जैमिनीय ब्राह्मण में वर्णन प्राप्त होता है –

स एष प्रजापतिः अग्निष्टोमः परिमण्डलो भूत्वा अनन्तो भूत्वा शये। तदनुकृतीदम् अपि च अन्या देवताः परिमण्डलाः। परिमण्डल आदित्यः, परिमण्डलः चन्द्रमाः, परिमण्डला द्यौः, परिमण्डलमन्तरिक्षम्, परिमण्डला इयं पृथिवी।

aslo see discription of bhugola in -

The vedic map of the universe(C.V.N.RAO), chapter IX, VII-A

[ramchander deekonda]

Srimadbhagavatam has this sloka:

etāvāḹ loka-vinyāso māna-lakṣaṇa-saṁsthābhir vicintitaḥ kavibhiḥ sa tu pañcāśat-koṭi-gaṇitasya bhū-golasya turīya-bhāgo ’yaṁ lokālokācalaḥ.

SYNONYMS

etāvān—this much; loka-vinyāsaḥ—the placing of the different planets; māna—with measurements; lakṣaṇa—symptoms; saṁsthābhiḥ—as well as with their different situations; vicintitaḥ—established by scientific calculations; kavibhiḥ—by learned scholars; saḥ—that; tu—but; pañcāśat-koṭi—500,000,000 yojanas; gaṇitasya—which is measured at; bhū-golasya—of the planetary system known as Bhūgolaka; turīya-bhāgaḥ—one fourth; ayam—this; lokāloka-acalaḥ—the mountain known as Lokāloka.

TRANSLATION

Learned scholars who are free from mistakes, illusions and propensities to cheat have thus described the planetary systems and their particular symptoms, measurements and locations. With great deliberation, they have established the truth that the distance between Sumeru and the mountain known as Lokāloka is one fourth of the diameter of the universe—or, in other words, 125,000,000 yojanas [1 billion miles].

Regards,
Ramchander Deekonda

[Dr.C.S.R. Prabhu]

How many miles is one Yojana exactly ? Where is Meru?Is this Bhugola  the entire Universe?

[Damodara Dasa]

|| Hare Krishna ||

In Bhagavatam 5.20.38, commentary by Visvanatha cakravarti Thakura
Bhugolaka's another meaning is explained as:
sa tu lokālokas tu bhū-golakasya bhū-sambandhāṇḍa-golakasyety arthaḥ;

Hari Guru Vaisnava das,
damodara das

On 6/27/18, pravesh vyas <praves...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> जैमिनीय ब्राह्मण में वर्णन प्राप्त होता है –
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> *स एष प्रजापतिः अग्निष्टोमः परिमण्डलो भूत्वा अनन्तो भूत्वा शये। तदनुकृतीदम्

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> अपि च अन्या देवताः परिमण्डलाः। परिमण्डल आदित्यः, परिमण्डलः चन्द्रमाः,

> परिमण्डला द्यौः, परिमण्डलमन्तरिक्षम्, परिमण्डला इयं पृथिवी।*
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> *aslo see discription of bhugola in -*

[Damodara Dasa]