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[148] It is said that there are seven crore, seventy-two lakh Bhavanavasi Devas residing in one lakh seventy-eight thousand yojanas in the middle of a thousand yojanas traversed (crossed) and another thousand yojanas left below. These Bhavanas are round on the outside and square on the inside, and are shaped like the seed of a lotus flower at the bottom. They are surrounded by deep and wide ditches and trenches, the difference of which is clear. They are adorned with ramparts, balconies, doors, toranas and gateways. They are surrounded by various mechanisms, Mahaśilās (large stones) or Mahayaṣṭīs (large sticks), pestles, weapons called Musuṇḍhī; and they are impregnable to enemies, always victorious, always safe, and composed of forty-eight chambers, adorned with forty-eight garlands, free from troubles, auspicious, and guarded by the armies of auspicious Kinnara Devas. They are well-maintained due to plastering (with cow dung etc.) and coating (with lime etc.). They have imprints of five fingers (of the hand) made with Gośīrṣacandana (sandalwood from the head of a cow) and fine red sandalwood. They have sandalwood kalasas (auspicious pots). Their toranas and the parts of the gateways are adorned with sandalwood pots. They are adorned with garlands of long, abundant, and round flowers hanging from top to bottom; and they are also adorned with the treatment of fresh, fragrant flowers of five colors. They are pleasant, fragrant, and smell like Gandhavattī due to the fragrance of black agarwood, the best chiḍā, loban, and incense. They are filled with groups of Apsarās, resound with the sounds of divine instruments, are made of all jewels, clean, smooth, soft, polished, wiped, free from dust, pure, spotless, free from coverings, radiant, luminous, prosperous, filled with rays, radiant (with cool light), pleasing, visible, beautiful, and similar. These (Bhavanas with the aforementioned characteristics) are said to be the places of the Bhavanavasi Devas, both sufficient and insufficient. They are in an innumerable part of the Lokas in relation to Upapāta, in an innumerable part of the Lokas in relation to Samudghāta, and also in an innumerable part of the Lokas in relation to Svasthāna. Many Bhavanavasi Devas reside there. They are as follows [Gāthārtha-]: 1-Asurakuṁāra, 2-Nāgakuṁāra, 3-Sup(varṇakuṁāra, 4-Vidyutkuṁāra, 5-Agnikuṁāra, 6-Dvīpakuṁāra, 7-Uddhikakuṁāra, 8-Diśākuṁāra, 6-Pavanakuṁāra, and 10-Stanitakuṁāra; these are the ten types of Bhavanavasi Devas with these names. / / 137 / / Their crowns or ornaments have the following marks respectively: (1) Cūḍāmaṇi, (2) the hood of a snake, (3) Garuda, (4) Vajra, (5) a crown marked with a full Kalasa, (6) a lion, (7) Makara (crocodile), (8) the mark of an elephant, (6) a superior horse, and (10) Vardhamānaka (Śarāvasampuṭa = Sakora), they are adorned with these various marks, beautiful, with great powers (Mahāddhik), with great radiance (Mahādyuti), great strength, great fame, great influence (Anubhāva-Prabhāva or Śāpānugrahasāmarthya), great (extreme) happiness, with a chest adorned with a garland, with arms adorned with bracelets and armlets, with Angada, Kundala, and Karṇapīṭha that smooth their cheeks, with various