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उत्तर ९-गोयमा ! धरणे णं णागकुमारिंदे णागकुमारराया एवं महिड्ढोए जाव...से णं तत्थ चोयालीसाए भवणावाससयसहस्साणं छण्हं सामाणियसाहस्सीणं तायत्तीसाए तायत्तीसगाणं चउण्हं लोगपालाणं छण्हं अग्गमहिसीणं सपरिवाराणं तिण्हं परिसाणं सत्तण्हं अणियाणं सत्तण्हं अणियाहिवईणं चउव्वीसाए आयरक्खदेवसाहस्सीणं अण्णेसिं च जाव...विहरइ। एवइयं च णं पभू विउव्वित्तए से जहा नामए जुवई जुवाणे जाव...पभू केवलकप्पं जंबुदीवं दीवं जाव...तिरियं संखेज्जे दीवसमुद्दे बहूहिं णागकुमारीहिं जाव... विउव्विस्संति वा सामाणिया तायत्तीसलोगपाला अग्गमहिसीओ य तहेव जहा चमरस्स एवं धरणे णं णागकुमारराया महिड्ढीए जाव...एवइयं जहा चमरे तहा धरणे वि णवरं संखेज्जे दीवे समुद्दे भाणियब्वे एवं जाव...थणियकुमारा वाणमंतरा जोईसिया वि णवरं दाहिणिल्ले सव्वे अग्गिभूई पुच्छइ उत्तरिल्ले सव्वे वाउभूई पुच्छइ।
Q. 9., Vairocanendra Bali, the king of the Vairocanas, 'is in possession of a great fortune, ...till a great power to transform. Now, Bhante, how much is the fortune of Dharana, the Indra of the Nagakumāras, their king,...how great is his power to transform ?
A. 9. Gautama! Dharana, the Indra of the Nagakumaras, their king, is in possession of a great fortune, ...till he exercises suzereinty over 44,00,000 bhavana-abodes, 6,000 Sāmānika gods, 33 Trāyas-triņsaka gods, 4 Lokapālas, 6 principal consorts with their families, 3 assemblies, a seven-fold army, 7 commanders, 24,000 body-guard gods and many other, ...till he reigns over them. He possesses a great power to transform, ...till like a lass held by the hand by a young man,...till can fill up the whole isle named Jambu-dvipa,...till a limited number of seas and a limited number of isles, with many Nāgakumāra gods and goddesses, ...nor will ever give ''effect to. About Sāmānika gods, Trāyas-trimsaka gods, Lokapālas, principal consorts, ... they are as those of Camara ; and so about the great fortune of Dharana the king of the Nagakumāras,...the same as that of Camara, the difference being that a limited number of seas and a limited number of isles are to be stated (in the present case), (and the description is to be repeated)...till Stanitakumāras, Vāņavyantaras, Jyotiskas, difference being that about all in the south,