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Bhagavai 5:1:16-19
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summer....up to season. The same description is to be made with reference to the three seasons. There are thirty dialogues in all.
Jambuddive ayaṇādi-vattavvaya-padam
5.17 jaya nam bhamte! jambuddive dive mamdarassa pavvayassa dahinaddhe padhame ayane padivajjai, tayā ṇam uttaraddhe vi padhame ayane padivajjai; jaha samaenam abhilavo taheva ayanena vi bhāniyavvo java anamtarapacchakadasamayamsi padhame ayane padivanne bhavai
The Topic of the Description of Solstice etc. in Jambūdvīpa
When O Lord! there is the first solstice (winter solstice) in the southern part of the Mount Meru in the Island of Jambudvipa, is there the same solstice in the northern part? Here the description of the solstice is just like the description in the case of samaya...... up to there occurs the first solstice in the immediately following samaya.
5.18 jaha ayaneṇam abhilavo taha samvaccharena vi bhāniyavvo, jueņa vi, vāsasaeņa vi, väsasahasseṇa vi, puvvena vi, tudiyamgena vi, tudiena vi evam puvvamge, puvve, tudiyamge, tudie, adadamge, adade, avavamge, avave, hūhūyamge, huhue, uppalamge, uppale, paumamge, paume, nalinamge, nailne, atthaniuramge, atthaniure, auayamge, aue, nauyamge, naue, pauyamge, paue, culiyamge, caliya, sisapaheliyamge, sisapaheliya-paliovamena, sägarovameṇa vi bhāniyavvo.
The dialogue in the case of samvatsara (a period of one year) is just like the dialogue in the case of the solstice. The same pattern follows in the dialogue about the periods of yuga, hundred years, thousand years, one lakh years, one purvänga, one purva, one truțitänga and one truțita, ataṭānga, ataja, avavänga, avava, hühūkānga, hühüka, utpalänga, utpala, padmanga, padma, nalinänga, nalina, arthanikuränga, arthanikura, ayutänga, ayuta, nayutānga, nayuta, prayutānga, prayuta, cūlikānga, cūlikā, sīrṣaprahelikānga, sirṣaprahelikä and pit-measured period and ocean-measured period.
5.19 jaya nam bhamte! jambuddive dive mamdarassa pavayassa dahinaddhe padhama osappiņi padivajjai, taya nam, uttaraddhe vi padhama osappiņi padivajjai: jaya nam uttaraddhe padhama osappiņi padivajjai, taya nam jambuddive dive mandarassa pavvayassa puratthima-pacchatthime nam nevatthi osappini, nevarthi ussappiņi, avatthie nam tatha käle pannatte samaṇāuso? hamta goyama! tam ceva uccareyavvam jāva samaṇauso.
Is there, O Lord! the first ascending time-cycle also in the northern half of Mount Meru, when there is the first ascending time-cycle in the southern half of Mount Meru in the Island of Jambudvipa? When there is the first ascending time-cycles in the northern-half, are there not ascending and descending time-cycles in the eastern part and western part of Mount Meru
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