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The third section of the second chapter of the first chapter provides information about the names, gotras, external characteristics, and other details of the hells and earths. Now, in the second chapter, which is in sequential order, a description is being given about which region of the hells and earths has how many hell-dwellers and what they are like, etc. Its initial sutra is this: 81. "O Bhagavan! How many earths have been stated?" "Gautama! Seven earths have been stated, such as Ratnaprabha up to Adhasaptamapṛthvī." "O Bhagavan! In this Ratnaprabha earth, which has a circumference of one hundred and eighty thousand yojanas, how far above and how much below, and in the middle, how many lakhs of hell-dwellers have been stated?" "Gautama! In this Ratnaprabha earth, which has a circumference of one hundred and eighty thousand yojanas, leaving one thousand yojanas above and one thousand yojanas below, in the middle, in a region of one hundred and seventy-eight thousand yojanas, there are thirty lakhs of hell-dwellers, it has been said." "These hell-dwellers are round inside and square outside, up to the point where they have unpleasant sensations in these hells." "In this way, according to this aspiration, one should speak according to the place and the path of knowledge, wherever there is a circumference and wherever there are hell-dwellers, adding them as adjectives, up to the seventh earth, such as in the middle of the Adhasaptamapṛthvī, how many regions have how many Anuttar, the greatest of the great Mahānarakas, been stated? One should ask this question and answer it in the same way."