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Kshir Sagar
In Hindu cosmology, the Ocean of milk (', ' or ''Kṣīra Sāgara'') is the fifth from the center of the seven oceans that surround loka or directional space and separate it from aloka or non-directional space. It surrounds the continent known as Krauncha.〔D. Dennis Hudson: The body of God: an emperor's palace for Krishna in eighth-century Kanchipuram, Oxford University Press US, 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-536922-9, pp.164-168〕 In Hinduism, the devas, (gods) and asuras, (demons) worked together for a millennium to churn the ocean and release Amrita the nectar of immortal life. It is spoken of in the Samudra manthan chapter of the Puranas, a body of ancient Sanskrit legends.
It is also the place where Vishnu reclines over Shesha Naga, along with his consort Lakshmi.
==Etymology==
"Ocean of Milk" is the English translation of the Sanskrit terms ', ' or ', from ' "milk, curdled milk" and ', ' "water, ocean" or ' "ocean".
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