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Bhagavai 4:1-4:3-5
vademsayä pannattā, tam jaha-amkavademsae, phalihavademsae, rayanavademsae, rūvavademsae, majjhe iśānavademsae. Where is, O Lord! the Mahävimäna, named Sumana, of the great king Soma, the custodian of Iśāna, the chief and the king of gods, said to be located? Gautama! in the northern part of the Meru Mountain in the Jambu Island, above the agreeable plain surface of the Ratnaprabhā hell ... up to there is said to be the Kalpa called iśāna. There are said to exist five avatamsaka viz.,-(i) Amkāvatamsaka (ii) Sphatikāvatamsaka (iii) Ratnāvatamsaka (iv) Jātarūpāvatamsaka (v) Išānāvatamsaka
situated in the middle. 4.4 tassa nam iśānavademsayassa mahāvimānassa puratthime nam tiriya
masamkhejjāim joyanasahassāim vīīvaittä, ettha ņam iśānassa devimdassa devaranno somassa mahāranno sumane nāmam mahāvimāne pannatte addhaterasajoyanasayasa-hassăim, jahā sakkassa vatavvayā taiyasae tahā iśānassa vi jāva accaniyä samattā. The great celestial abode, named Sumana, of the great King Soma, the custodian of Isāna, the chief and the king of gods is said to be situated at the place reached by traversing innumerable yojanas in the eastern region of that great celestial abode, called Iśānāvatamsaka. Its diameter is 122 lakh yojanas. The description of īsāna is to be given here like that of Sakra, given
in the third Sataka ...... up to arcanikā. 4.5 caunham vi logapālānam vimäne-vimäne uddesuo caūsu vi vimānesu cattāri
uddesā apgrisesā, navaram-thiie nāņatamOne uddeśaka each for each vimāna of all the four custodians is to be understood in its entirety, the only difference is in their life-span (which is
as follows:). Samgahaņī gāhā
ādi duya tibhāgūņā, paliyā dhanayassa homti do cevā ! do satibhāgā varune,
paliyamahāvaccadevānam ||1|| Summary Verse
The life-span of the first two custodians is (2-5) palyopamas; the life-span of Dhanada (Vaisravana) custodians is 2 palyopamas; the life-span of Varuņa is (2+1) palyopamas; the life-span of the gods who are identified as the (fostered) sons of the custodians is 1 palyopama.
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