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THE INITIATION AND OMNISCIENCE OF AJITA 119
Mlecchas (679-683) The Mlecchas-Sākas, Yavanas, Šabaras, Barbaras, Kāyas, Murundas, Udras, Godras, Patkaņakas, Arapākas, Hünas, Romakas, Pārasas, Khasas, Khāsikas, Dombilikas, Lakusas, Bhillas, Anghras, Bukkasas, Pulindas, Krauñcakas, Bhamararutas, Kuñcas, Cīnas, Vañcukas, Mālavas, Dravidas, Kulakșas, Kirātas, Kaikayas, Hayamukhas, Gajamukhas, Turagamukhas, Ajamukhas, Hayakarņas, Gajakarņas, and other non-Aryas also, are people who do not know even the word ' dharma.'
The Antaradvipas (684-700) The Mlecchas are free from (knowledge of) virtue and vice, and also those born in the Antaradvipas. The fiftysix Antaradvipas are as follows: Half of them are to the east and west of Kşudrahimavat in the four intermediate directions, beginning with the northeast. In the northeast at a distance of three hundred yojanas in the Lavaņa Ocean is the first Antaradvipa, named Ekoru, of an equal (300 yojanas) length and width. The people, beautiful in body and limbs, have the same name as the island. Not only in the case of Ekoru, but also in the case of other islands to be mentioned later, the people have the same name as the island. In the southeast and other intermediate directions are the islands, Ābhāșika, Lāngūlika, Vaişāņika, respectively, at the same distance and with the same length and width (as Ekoru).
Beyond them at a distance of four hundred yojanas and with an equal length and width, at the intermediate points, northeast, etc., are the Antaradvipas, Hayakarņa, Gajakarņa, Gokarņa, Saskulikarņaka, respectively.
Beyond them at a distance of five hundred yojanas and with the same length and width are the four Antaradvipas, Adarśamukha, Meşamukha, Hayamukha, and Gajamukha, in the northeast, as before.
Then come Aśvamukha, Hastimukha, Sinhamukha,
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