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[308] [Jivajivaabhigamsutra] Is the taste of cow's milk, which has been transformed into a sweet dish by adding jaggery, sugar, and mishri, cooked on a slow fire, and possessing auspicious color, fragrance, taste, and touch, similar to the taste of cow's milk? Gautama! This is not supported. The taste of that earth is even more desirable and pleasing. / O Bhagavan! What is the taste of the flowers and fruits there? Gautama! Like the food of the Chaturanga Chakravarti, known as Kalyana Bhojan, which is produced from a lakh cows, which is of the best color, fragrance, taste, and touch, is worthy of tasting, is worthy of tasting again and again, which is deepaniya (digestive), vahaniya (nourishing), darpaneya (enhancing enthusiasm), madaniya (intoxicating), and which is enjoyable to all the senses and the body, is that the taste of those flowers and fruits? Gautama! This is not right. The taste of those flowers and fruits is even more desirable, radiant, dearer, pleasing, and more pleasing. O Bhagavan! How do they live in such dwellings after consuming such food? Ayushman Gautama! Those humans live in trees transformed into houses. / Bhagavan! What is the shape of those trees? Gautama! They are shaped like the peak of a mountain, like a theater, like an umbrella, like a flag, like a stupa, like a toran, like a gopura, like a vedika, like a chopyal (intoxicated elephant), like an attalika, like a royal palace, like a haveli, like a window, like a water palace, like a Vallabhi (house with balconies), and O Ayushman Shraman! There are also trees there which are of various types of buildings, beds, seats, etc., and have a pleasant cool shade. 111. (16) Are there any houses or house-like structures on that island, Bhante? / Those human beings live in tree-houses, Shramanausho! / Are there any villages, towns, or settlements on that island, Bhante? / Those human beings live in the desired world, Shramanausho! / Are there any artisans, laborers, farmers, merchants, or traders on that island, Bhante? / Those human beings live in a state of complete freedom from all kinds of work, Shramanausho. 1. If the milk of one lakh cows that graze on the sugarcane of the Pund jati is given to fifty thousand cows, and the milk of those fifty thousand cows is given to twenty-five thousand cows, and so on, in a sequence of giving milk to half the number of cows, the milk of the last cow in that sequence, made into kheer with various nuts and other ingredients, is called the Kalyana Bhojan of the Chakravarti.