Puskaradvipa appears to be that division of the tracheobronchial tree that is located (very) distally to the hilum, towards the periphery of the respiratory lotus. It, the Brahma Purana, says, contains neither mountain nor river; so this must mean that it does not contain those respiratory conduits considered to be “weighty” and “big”—the bronchi and the bigger bronchioles (the first five generations of them?) and the pulmonary arterial conduits corresponding to these, which are the “rivers.” The mountain Manasottara which is supposed to be located at the centre of Puskaradvipa, is the heart. Its perimeter does go like a ring across the five continents beginning with Plaksa (seen in this light, the five dvipas, Plaksa and the rest, and also Puskara, do seem to belong to the lower region of the lung; the Surya Siddhanta’s words). It divides Puskaradvipa (thoracic region) into two halves (the two lungs). These two halves of the left and the right lung have been given the names “Mahavita” and “Dhataki.” Brahma is worshiped in Puskara; and it is in this continent that a lotus having thousands of petals is situated. This lotus is the metaphorical representation of the trachea and the entire tracheobronchial tree. Brahma, the mind-organ (manas), is present as the neural controller of the lungs; he sits atop the “pericarp” (primary bronchi) of this wondrous lotus.
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