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भगवती सूत्रम् शः ११ उः १०
A. 72. Gautama ! The traversed part is indeed bigger. The untraversed part is less, infinitely less. In other words, the traversed part is infinitely bigger than the untraversed part. Gautama ! Such is the vastness of the universe.
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[Vastness of Non-world i. e. Vacant Space]
प्रश्न ७३ – अलोए णं भंते ! के महालए पण्णत्ते ?
Q. 73. Bhante !
What is the size of the non-world?
उत्तर ७३ - गोयमा ! अयंणं समयखेत्ते पणयालीसं जोयणसय सहस्सा इं आयामविक्खंभेणं जहा खंदए जाव... परिक्खे वेणं । तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं दस देवा महिड्डिया तहेव जाव... संपरिक्खित्ता णं संचिट्ठेज्जा अहे णं अट्ठ दिसाकुमारीओ महत्तरियाओं अट्ठ बलिपिंडे गहाय माणुसुत्तरस्स पव्वयस्स चउसु वि दिसासु चउसु वि विदिसासु बहियाभिमुहीओ ठिच्चा ते अट्ठ बलिपिंडे जमगसमगं बहियाभिमुहीओ पक्खिवेज्जा पभू णं गोयमा ! ओ एगमे देवे ते अट्ठ बलिपिडे धरणितलमसंपत्ते खिप्पामेव पडिसाहरित्तए ते गं गोयमा ! देवा ताए उक्किट्ठाए जाव देवगईए लोगंते ठिच्चा असम्भावपट्टवणाए एगे देवे पुरच्छाभिमुहे पयाए एगे देवे दाहिणपुरच्छाभिमुहे पयाए एवं जाव... उत्तरपुरच्छाभिमुहे एगे देवे उड्डाभिमुहे एगे देवे अहोभिमुहे पयाए । तेणं कालेणं तेणं समएणं वाससयसहस्साउए दारए पयाए । तएणं तस्स दारगस्स अम्मापियरो पहीणा भवंति णो चेव णं ते देवा अलोयंतं संपाउणति ।
A. 73. Gautama ! The time region or human world (where time sense exists) has a length and breadth of 45,00.000 yojanas, etc., all as stated in the Skandaka story, till its circumferenee. If ten gods with a great fortune stand all around this time region, and beneath them stand eight Dikkumāris (goddesses of the directions) with sacrificial offerings in their hands in four directions and four subdirections of the Manuşottara Mountain, with their faces turned outwards, and they simultaneously throw out the sacrificial offerings, and if each one of the gods is capable of oatching the offering before it touches the ground, if gods
