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[34] Four forest sections are said to be located at a distance of five hundred yojanas in each direction from the capital city of Vijaya, namely: 1. Ashoka forest, 2. Saptaparna forest, 3. Champaka forest, and 4. Amra forest. / The Ashoka forest is in the east, the Saptaparna forest is in the south, the Champaka forest is in the west, and the Amra forest is in the north. These forest sections are slightly more than twelve thousand yojanas long and five hundred yojanas wide. Each of them is surrounded by a rampart, is black, and appears black. - This description of the forest sections should be understood until there are many celestial beings and goddesses residing there, sleeping (because there is no sleep in the celestial realm), staying, sitting, turning over, enjoying, playing, sporting, engaging in amorous play, and experiencing the beneficial results of their past good practices, their well-cultivated austerities, and their good deeds. / In the very middle of these forest sections, there are said to be separate praasadaavatasakas. These praasadaavatasakas are sixty-two and a half yojanas high, thirty-one yojanas and one kos long and wide. These praasadaavatasakas appear to be bound by a radiance emanating from all sides, or they appear to be smiling with a white radiance. This description should be understood until there is a very level and pleasant land inside them, and various paintings of lotus vines, etc., are drawn on the inner ceilings. / In the very middle of these praasadaavatasakas, there are said to be separate thrones. Their description should be understood as before, until the thrones with their families are understood. / Above these praasadaavatasakas, there are many eight-part auspicious objects, flags, and umbrellas on umbrellas. There reside four celestial beings who are of great merit and who are in the state of palyopama. Their names are: 1. Ashoka, 2. Saptaparna, 3. Champaka, and 4. Amra. They rule over their respective forest sections, their respective praasadaavatasakas, their respective samanika celestial beings, their respective chief queens, their respective councils, and their respective protector celestial beings, and they continue to roam. 136. (2) In the capital city of Vijaya, there is a very pleasant land in the middle, which is adorned with five kinds of jewels and is free from the sound of grass, where celestial beings and goddesses reside and roam. / In the very middle of this very pleasant land, there is a single great palace, twelve hundred yojanas long and wide, three thousand yojanas and fifty-seven hundred yojanas in circumference, slightly more than half a kos in width, with a flagstaff made of sandalwood, which is beautiful and well-shaped. / It is adorned with a lotus-shaped roof and a single forest section, and it is completely surrounded by a rampart. It is of the color of a lotus-shaped roof, and it is of the color of a forest section. / The forest section is two yojanas in circumference, and it is surrounded by a rampart. In the four directions of this rampart, there are four three-storied gateways, which are beautiful. In front of these three-storied gateways, there are gates, gates, and arches, and there are umbrellas on umbrellas.