________________
Bhagavati Satra Bk. 11 Ch. 9
19k
curiosity and inquisititiveness enkindled in him. Having come back to his lodge, he submitted to Bhagavān Mahavira in part as follows:
प्रश्न ४९ तेण परं वोच्छिण्णा दीवा य समुद्दा य। से कहमेयं भंते ! एवं ?
Q.49. Bhante! The monarch-sage Siva claims that in the universe there are seven isles and seven oceans, and nothing. more beyond these, etc. How is that ?
समणे भगवं महावीरे भगवं गोयम एवं वयासी
Bhagavān Mahāvira interrupted :
उत्तर ४९-जण्णं गोयमा ! से बहुजणे अण्णमण्णस्स एवमाइक्खइ तं चेव सव्वं भाणियव्वं जाव...भंडणिक्खेवं करेइ हत्थिणापुरे णय रे सिंघाडग० तं चेव जाव...वोच्छिण्णा दीवा य समुद्दा य । तएणं तस्स सिवस्स रायरिसिस्स अंतिए एयमट्ठसोच्चा णिसम्म तं चेव सव्वं भाणियव्वं जाव..तेण परं वोच्छिण्णा दीवा य समुद्दा य तण्णं मिच्छा। अहं पुण गोयमा! एवमाइक्खामि...जाव परूवेमि-एवं खलु जंबुद्दीवाइया दीवा लवणाईया समुद्दा संठाणमओ एगविहिविहाणा वित्थारओ अणेगविहिविहाणा एवं जहा जीवाभिगमे जाव..,सयंभूरमणपज्जवसाणा अस्सिं तिरियलोए असंखेज्जे दीवस मुद्दे पण्णत्ते समणाउसो !
____ A. 49. This is wholly incorrect. Oh Gautama ! " assert like this, till establish that Jambūdvīpa and other isles. and Salt ocean and other oceans being round in shape are similar, but in width, each is twice the isle preceding it and hence are different, etc., as described in the Jivabhigama Sutra, till, oh long lived monks, in this world of beings, till the ocean named Svayambhuramaņa, there are many isles. and oceans.
प्रश्न ५०-अत्थि णं भंते ! जंबुद्दीवे दीवे दन्वाइं सवण्णाई पि अवण्णाई पि सगंधाई पि अगंधाई पि सरसाइं पि अरसाई पि सफासाई पि अफासाइं पि अण्णमण्णबद्धाइं अण्णमण्णपुट्ठाई जाव...घडत्ताए चिट्ठति ।
