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In this Ratnaprabha earth, from the very beautiful parts of the earth, going up seven hundred ninety yojanas, in the oblique celestial region of one hundred ten yojanas in width, there are said to be countless celestial mansions of the Jyotishka Devas. These celestial mansions are bright with the effulgence emanating from them and spreading in all directions, adorned with various kinds of gems and jewels, adorned with victorious banners, victory banners, flags, and umbrellas, with high peaks touching the sky, with gems embedded in their lattices. Just as a cage (covering) immediately removes the object with its brilliance, so are they brilliant. They are adorned with stupas of gems and gold, with expanded hundred-petaled lotuses, with tilakas, with crescent-shaped images of gems, very smooth inside and out, with sand-like layers of heated gold, with pleasant touch, beautiful, pleasing to the mind, and worth seeing.
Bhagavan! How many celestial mansions of the Jyotishka Devas are said to be?
Gautama! From this Ratnaprabha earth, from the very beautiful parts of the earth, going up beyond the moon, sun, planets, stars, and constellations, many yojanas, many hundreds of yojanas, many thousands of yojanas [many hundreds of thousands of yojanas], many millions of yojanas, many kotis of yojanas, and countless kotis of yojanas, far up in the sky, in the Saudharma, Ishana, Sanatkumara, Mahendra, Brahma, Lantaka, Shukra, Sahasrar, Anata, Pranata, Aran, Achyuta kalpas, in the Gaiveyakas and Anuttaras, there are eighty-four lakhs, seventy-nine thousand, and twenty-three celestial mansions of the Vaimanika Devas, it is said.