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The lowermost end of the Ratnaprabha earth is said to be eighty-nine thousand yojanas away from the lowermost end of the Badvamukha Mahapatala Kalasha. Similarly, the distance between the other Mahapatala Kalashas, Ketuk, Yupaka, and Ishvara, should also be known.
**Explanation:** The Ratnaprabha earth is one lakh eighty thousand yojanas thick. The Lavana Sea is one thousand yojanas deep. The Badvamukha Patala Kalasha is one lakh yojanas deep from the bottom of the Lavana Sea. The distance between the bottom of the Badvamukha Patala Kalasha and the bottom of the Ratnaprabha earth is eighty-nine thousand yojanas. This is because when one lakh one thousand yojanas (101000) are subtracted from the total thickness of the Ratnaprabha earth (180000), the difference is eighty-nine thousand yojanas (180000 - 101000 = 79000). Similarly, the distance between the bottom of the other three Patala Kalashas and the bottom of the Ratnaprabha earth should also be known as eighty-nine thousand yojanas.
[373]
The lowermost end of the sixth Ghanodadhivat is said to be eighty-nine thousand yojanas away from the middle of the sixth earth, Tamahprabha.
**Explanation:** The thickness of the sixth earth, Tamahprabha, is one lakh sixteen thousand yojanas. If the Ghanodadhivat is considered to be twenty-one thousand yojanas thick according to this text, then the distance between the middle of the earth and the bottom of the Ghanodadhivat is eighty-nine thousand yojanas (58000 + 21000 = 79000). However, according to other texts, the thickness of the Ghanodadhivat below all the earths is said to be twenty thousand yojanas. Therefore, according to them, the distance should be known from the middle of the fifth earth to the bottom of the Ghanodadhivat there. Because the fifth earth is one lakh eighteen thousand yojanas thick. The middle of the earth is fifty-nine thousand yojanas, and the thickness of the Ghanodadhivat is twenty thousand yojanas, which together make eighty-nine thousand yojanas. The Sanskrit commentator has also expressed the possibility that the word "bahu" should be taken to mean one thousand more, i.e., fifty-nine thousand yojanas as the middle part.
[374]
The distance between the two gates of Jambudvipa is said to be slightly more than eighty-nine thousand yojanas.