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Pamcamo Uddeso
Section-5
Text Tamukkāya-padam 6.70 kimiyam bhamte! tamukkāe tti pavvuccati? kim pudhavi tamukkāe tti
pavvuccati? āū tamukkāe tti pavvuccati?
goyamā! no pudhavi tamukkāe tti pavvuccati, āū taukkāe tti pavvuccati. The Topic of the Mass of Darkness What', O Lord! is called the 'mass of darkness'? Is the earth called the 'mass of darkness'? Is water called the 'mass of darkness'? Gautama! the earth is not called the mass of darkness. Water is called the
mass of darkness. 6.71 se keņatthenam?
goyamā! pudhavikäe ņam atthegaie subhe desam pakāsei, atthegaie desam no pakāsei. se tenatthenam. For what reason is it so? Gautama! some earth-body which is auspicious (bright) illuminates a part of the intended space and some earth-body does not illuminate the part of intended space. For this reason, it has been so said the earth-body is not
the mass of darkness'.! 6.72 tamukkae nam bhamte! kahim samutthie? kahim samnitthie?
goyamā! jambūdīvassa dīvassa bahiyā tiriyamasamkhejje dīvasamudde vīīvaittă, arunavarassa dīvassa bāhirillāo veiyamtāo arunodayam samuddam bāyālīsam joyanasahassāni ogāhittă uvarillāo jalamtão egapaesiyāe sedhie-ettha nam tamukkāe samutthie, sattarasaekkavīse joyanasae uddham uppaittā tao pacchā tiriyam pavittharamān-pavittharamāṇe sohammisāņa-sanamkumāra-māhimde cattāri vi kappe āvarittā nam uddham pi ya nam jāva bambhaloge kappe ritthavimānapatthadam sampatte ettha nam tamukkāe samnitthie. Where does, O Lord! the mass of darkness rise up from? And where does it terminate? Gautama! when, outside the island of Jambūdvīpa, one crosses innumerable number of islands and oceans, one reaches an island named Aruņavara. From the rim of the platform on the outskirts of that island, as one proceeds 42000 yojanas into the Aruņodaka ocean, there rises a linear structure of the width of one space-point (ākāśa pradeśa) from above the surface of the water. From here arises the mass of darkness. It (the linear structure) rises up to 1721 yojanas, and then horizontally widening and widening, it moves
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