Narada said: -
1. The name of this (region) is Rashatala which is the seventh region in the nether regions of the earth, where lives Surabhi, the mother of cows, who was born out of nectar.
2. She always distils milk which is produced from the essence of earthly things - which is of the one taste, having nothing superior to it, constituted of the essence of the silt different tastes.
3. Surabhi, having no defect, herself rose from the mouth of the Grandfather, who satiated with nectar, was in days of old, vomitting the essence of all things.
4. One stream, even of whose milk, having fallen on the face of the earth made a lake which is called the excellent and holy sea- milk.
5. The limit of the sea is surrounded by foam which looks like flowers and here live those best among Munis - the drinkers of foam, - drinking it.
6. They are known as drinkers of foam, O Matali, who practise austere asceticism and of whom the gods are afraid.
7. She has got four calves, O Matali which are in the several cardinal points for they bear the load of these points.
8. The child of Surabhi, named Surupa supports the eastern point and the one named Hansika supports another point - the south.
9. The western point, under the protection of Varuna, is supported by Subhadra who is ever of a great nature and of a universal form.
10. The cow, named Sarvakamadugha, supports another point, O Matali, which is the direction in which virtue rules and so named after Kuvera the God of wealth.
11. The gods united with the Asuras having churned the water of the ocean, mixed with milk, making the Mandara (mountain) their churning rod.
12. Extracted the Varuni wine, Lakshmi (the Goddess of beauty and wealth) and nectar, O Matali and also the best of horses, Uchchaisrava, and that gem Kaustabha.
13. Surabhi yields milk that is Sudha to those that live on Sudha and Swadha to those who subsist on Swadha and Amrita to those who feed on Amrita.
14. The song, that was sung here in days of old by the inhabitants of Rashatala, is still heard to be sung in this world by wise men.
15. “Neither in the region of the Nagas, nor in Swarga, nor in Vimana, nor in Tripistapa (all names for heaven) is residence so happy as in the nether regions.”
Thus ends the one hundred and second chapter, the search of bridegroom by Matali, in the Bhagavat-Yana of the Udyoga Parva.