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[7] The Hindi name for the Ocean is ... intermittently from estuary to estuary along the northern perimeter of the Indian Ocean at a rate of 0.7–4.0 km (0.43–2.49 ...
The term can now also be taken to refer to these seven oceanic bodies of water: [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] the Arctic Ocean. the North Atlantic Ocean. the South Atlantic Ocean. the Indian Ocean. the North Pacific Ocean. the South Pacific Ocean. the Southern (or Antarctic) Ocean. The World Ocean is also known as just " the sea ", the expanse emanating from ...
Western Indian Ocean. Bajuni Islands (Somalia) Bazaruto Archipelago (Mozambique) Chagos Archipelago (including Diego Garcia) (Mauritius) Comoros. Khuriya Muriya Islands (Oman) Lakshadweep Archipelago (India) Lamu Archipelago (Kenya) Madagascar.
The Churning of the Ocean. The Kshira Sagara is the site of the legend of the Samudra Manthana, the churning of the cosmic ocean. At the suggestion of Vishnu, the devas and asuras churned the primeval ocean in order to obtain amrita, the elixir of immortality. To churn the ocean, they used the serpent-king, Vasuki as the churning rope.
Varuna iconography at the 11th-century Rajarani Hindu temple. [14]In Hindu tradition, the theonym Váruṇa (Devanagari: वरुण) is described as a derivation from the verbal root vṛ ("to surround, to cover" or "to restrain, bind") by means of a suffixal -uṇa-, for an interpretation of the name as "he who covers or binds", in reference to the cosmological ocean or river encircling the ...
Samudra. Samudra (Sanskrit: समुद्र; IAST: samudrá) is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "gathering together of waters" (saṃ - "together" and -udra "water"). It refers to an ocean, sea or confluence. [1] It also forms the name of Samudradeva (Sanskrit: समुद्रदेव; IAST: samudrá-deva), the Hindu god of the ocean.
[7] The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one
Dvipa (Sanskrit: द्वीप, lit. 'island', IAST: Dvīpa) [1] is a term in Hindu cosmography. The Puranas describe a dvipa to be one of the seven islands [2] or continents that are present on earth, each of them surrounded by an ocean. [3] The same terminology is also used to refer to the seven regions of the cosmos. [4][5]