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[292] Description of the Ekorukdvipa 111. [1] O Bhagavan! How is the land of Ekorukdvipa described? _ Gautama! The inner land of Ekorukdvipa is said to be very flat and beautiful. _ Just as the skin of a Mruj (a type of drum) is flat, so is the land there. _ Similarly, one should also mention the softness of a bed or describe the earth-stone slab. On that stone slab, many men and women of Ekorukdvipa rise and sit, experiencing the fruits of their past good deeds. _ The present sutra describes the land structure of Ekorukdvipa. The land there is perfectly flat. Various similes are used to describe this flatness. _ The sutra explicitly states 'Pralingapukkharei va', which means 'Aaling', meaning Mruj. _ Mruj is a type of drum. _ Pushkar means skin. _ Just as the skin of a Mruj and drum is perfectly flat, so is the land of Ekorukdvipa perfectly flat and beautiful. _ The word 'Yavat' should be understood to include other similes, such as the smooth and flat surface of a drum, the flat surface of water in a full pond, the palm of the hand, the moon, the sun, the surface of a mirror, etc. _ Just as the skin of sheep, bull, deer, lion, tiger, wolf, and cheetah is made extremely flat by stretching it with large nails, so is the land there extremely flat and beautiful. That land is adorned with various auspicious forms like Pravart, Pratyavart, Shreni, Prasreni, Swastik, Sovastik, Pushyaman, Vardhaman, Matsyand, Makarand, Jar Mar Puspavali, Padmapatra, Sagar Tarang, Vasanti Lata, Padmalata, etc., and is beautiful, with beautiful radiance, beautiful splendor, shining bright rays, and light, adorned with various types of five-colored grasses and gems. _ That land is soft to the touch. To describe this soft touch, one should mention the bed. The implication is that the land is soft to the touch like deer skin, cotton, wool, butter, and cotton. _ That land is full of gems, clean, smooth, rubbed, polished, free from stones, pure, spotless, free from pebbles, bright, beautiful, radiant, auspicious, beautiful to look at, and a model.