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Bhagavai 3:7:249-277
panṇattā, tam jahä-asogavaḍemsae, sattavannavaḍemsae, campayavaḍemsae, cuyavaḍemsae, majjhe sohammavaḍemsae.
Where is O Lord! the Mahāvimāna, named Sandhyaprabha, of the great king Soma, the custodian of Śakra, the chief and the king of gods, situated? O Gautama! in the southern part of the Mt. Meru in the Jambu Island, above the agreeable plain surface of the Ratnaprabhā hell, many Yojanas away from the moons, suns, planets, constellations and stars, there are said to exist five avatamsaka-Aśokāvatamsaka, Saptaparṇāvatamsaka, Campakāvatamsaka, Cūtāvataṇsaka and Saudharmāvatamsaka situated in the middle.
Soma-padam
3.250 tassa nam sohammavaḍemsayassa mahāvimāṇassa puratthimeṇam sohamme kappe asamkhejjāim joyaṇāim viivaittä, ettha nam sakkassa devimdassa devaranno somassa mahāraṇno samjhappabhe nāmam mahāvimāṇe pannatte-addhaterasajoyaṇasayasahasṣāim āyāma-vikkhambheṇam, uyālīsam joyaṇasayasahassāim bāvannam ca sahassaim aṭṭha ya aḍayāle joyaṇasae kimci visesāhie parikkhevenam pannatte. jā sūriyābhavimāṇassa vatavvayā sā aparisesā bhāniyavvā jāva abhiseo navaram--somo devo.
The Topic of Soma
O Gautama!' the great celestial abode, named Sandhyaprabha, of the great king Soma, the custodian of Sakra, the chief and the king of gods, is said to be situated at the place reached by traversing innumerable yojanas in the Saudharma Kalpa in the eastern region of that great celestial abode called Saudharmavatamsaka. Its diameter is 121⁄2 lakh yojanas and the circumference is a little more than thirty-nine lakh fifty-two thousand eight hundred and fourty-eight yojanas. Here the description of the Suryabha Vimāna ...... up to the description of ‘anointing ceremomy at the time of his coronation' is to be given, only the name Suryabha is to be replaced by the name Soma.
Bhāṣya
1. Sūtras 250-277
The Bhasya of this dialogue (from Sūtras 250-277) has been given after the sutra 277.
Text
3.251 samjhappabhassa ṇam mahāvimāṇassa ahe, sapakkhim, sapaḍidisim asamkhejjāim joyaṇasahassāim ogāhittä, ettha nam sakkassa devimdassa devaranno somassa mahāraṇņo somānāmam rāyahāṇī pannattā―egam joyaṇasayasahassam āyāma-vikkhambheṇam jambūdīvappamāṇā. vemāniyāṇam
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