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[284] [Prajñāpanā Sūtra] Gotama! I do not understand this. Why, Bhante? Thus it is said: In the case of a Chhadmastha, do they perceive any color with the eye, any smell with the nose, any taste with the tongue, or any touch with the skin? Gotama! The Jambudvipa is a continent, situated in the midst of all the continents and oceans, the smallest of all, circular in shape, like a sesame seed, like a chariot wheel, like a lotus seed, and like a full moon. It is one hundred thousand yojanas in length and breadth. Three hundred thousand, sixteen thousand, two hundred twenty-seven yojanas, three kosas, one hundred eighteen dhanus, thirteen and a half angulas, with a little more circumference, it is said. A god, endowed with moderate or great happiness, takes a large box of fragrant ointment, and opens it. Then, that large box of fragrant ointment, which is open,