Chapter 975

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Neither Atlantis, nor yet Shankha-dvîpa, was ever called “White Island.” When tradition says that “the White Island became black on account of the sins of the people,” it only means the denizens of the “White Island,” or Siddhapura, or Shveta-dvîpa, who descended to the Atlantis of the Third and Fourth Races, to “inform the latter; and who, having incarnated, became black with sin” figure of speech. All the Avatâras of Vishnu are said to come originally from the White Island. According to Tibetan tradition the White Island is the only locality which escapes the general fate of other Dvipas; it can be destroyed by neither fire nor water, for—it is the “Eternal Land.”