Sukṛtā

Sukṛtā · su-kṛtā, “the well-made one”

Sukṛtā is a river of Plaksha-dvīpa, the second of the seven dvīpas of the earth. Lomaharshaṇa names it last among the seven chief rivers of that dvīpa in Chapter 20 of the Brahma Purāṇa, in his account of the dvīpas that lie beyond Jambūdvīpa. The seven are Anutaptā, Śikhā, Vipāśā, Tridivā, Kramu, Amṛtā and Sukṛtā. All of them flow to the sea, and they take away pāpas the moment one hears their names.

The rivers of Plaksha-dvīpa

The people of Plaksha-dvīpa always drink the waters of these rivers, yet the rivers neither decrease nor grow. Only the chief rivers and mountains are named; the small rivers and mountains there are in thousands.

Plaksha-dvīpa

Plaksha-dvīpa is twice the size of Jambūdvīpa, whose extent is one lakh yojanas. Its lord is Medhātithi, and his seven sons ruled it: Śāntamaya the eldest, Śiśira, Sukhodaya, Ānanda, Śiva, Kshemaka and Dhruva. Seven boundary mountains bear their names, and there are seven varsha mountains besides: Gomoda, Candra, Nārada, Dundubhi, Somaka, Sumanas and Vaibhrāja. On these lovely mountains and in the varshas the people live together with the devas and gandharvas. The lands are pure and full of vigour. The people do not die, and free of ādhi (pain of the mind) and vyādhi (illness) they are happy at all times.

There is no order of yugas there; time always runs as in the Tretā yuga. From Plaksha-dvīpa to Śāka-dvīpa the people live five thousand years, free of disease. Dharma there is fourfold, by varṇa and āśrama, and the four varṇas are the Āryakas, the Kurus, the Vivilvas and the Bhāvins. A plaksha tree as great as the jambu tree of Jambūdvīpa stands in the middle of the dvīpa and gives it its name. There Hari, the maker of the world and Īśvara of all, is worshipped in the form of Soma by the Āryakas and the other varṇas. The dvīpa is surrounded by the Ikshu ocean, the ocean of sugar-cane juice, of the same measure as the dvīpa.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20