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[The Seventy-Nine Stations-Concordance]
[153 Seventy-Nine Stations-Concordance 436-From the westernmost extremity of Mount Mandara to the westernmost extremity of the Gośtuva dwelling-mountain, the distance is said to be seventy-nine thousand yojanas. Similarly, in all four directions.
Discussion-From the western part of Mount Meru to the eastern part of Jambudvipa, the distance is fifty-five thousand yojanas, and from there to the western part of Mount Gośtuva, the distance is forty-two thousand yojanas. Therefore, the distance of seventy-nine thousand yojanas between the four dwelling-mountains, as stated in the scriptures, is proven.
437-The eight karmas are said to have seventy-nine (5+9+2+28+4+42+2+5=97) northern natures.
438-King Hariṣeṇa, the Cakravartin of the four directions, after living in a house for a little less than seventy-nine hundred (9700) years, became a monk, leaving the house for the homeless state.
|| The Seventy-Nine Stations Concordance is complete.
[The Eighty-Nine Stations-Concordance] 439-From the upper extremity of Nandana-vana to the lower extremity of Paṇḍuka-vana, the distance is said to be eighty-nine thousand yojanas.
Discussion-Nandana-vana is situated five hundred yojanas above the level of the earth, and its peaks, situated in all eight directions, are also five hundred yojanas high. Therefore, the total height of Nandana-vana is one thousand yojanas. The height of Meru is ninety-nine thousand yojanas from the level of the earth, and subtracting the aforementioned one thousand yojanas from it, the distance of eighty-nine thousand yojanas, as stated in the scriptures, is proven.
440-From the westernmost extremity of Mount Mandara to the easternmost extremity of the Gośtuva dwelling-mountain, the distance is said to be eighty-nine thousand yojanas. Similarly, the distance between the dwelling-mountains situated in all four directions should be known.