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CHAPTER THREE Vyāghramukha, six hundred yojanas in distance, length, and width.
At seven hundred yojanas in distance, with the same length and width are Aśvakarņa, Sinhakarņa, Hastikarņa, and Karņaprāvarana.
Then located at a distance of eight hundred yojanas across Lavanoda, with the same length and width are Ulkāmukha, Vidyujjihva, Meghamukha, and Vidyuddanta, in the northeast, etc., respectively.
After traversing nine hundred yojanas of Lavaņa Ocean, four Antaradvipas, named Gūdhadanta, Ghanadantaka, Śreșthadantaka, Suddhadantaka, nine hundred yojanas in length and width, are situated in the respective intermediate points.
In this same way there are twenty-eight at Mt. Sikharin. Added together, there are fifty-six in all.
Other continents and oceans (701-703) On the other side of Mānuşottara is the second haif of Puskara. Surrounding Puşkara is the Puşkara Ocean twice as large. Then come the continent and ocean Vāruņīvara; and beyond them the continent and ocean Kșīravara. Then Ghrtavara continent and ocean, and Ikşuvara continent and ocean. Then comes the eighth continent, named Nandiśvara, which resembles heaven.
Description of Nandīśvara (704-738) The diameter of its circle is one billion, six hundred and thirty-eight million, four hundred thousand yojanas. It is a land of delights of the gods, with gardens of manifold designs, beautiful from the descents of gods engaged in the worship of the Jinendras. In its central part there are four Mt. Añjanas, the color of antimony, 256 in succession in the directions, east, etc. At ground level they are more than ten thousand yojanas in diameter and
268 706. Really antimony trisulphide, which is black ore.
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