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Bhagavai 6:5:90-91 Where, O Lord! are the eight black streaks stated to be? Gautama! above the Sanatkumāra and Mahendra heavens, in the Brahmaloka Heaven, parallel to the plane of Rista Vimāna, there are situated the eight black streaks of the shape of a square wrestling ground, viz., two on the eastern sides, two on the western side, two on the south and two on the north. The black streak inside the east touches the black streak outside the south, the black streak inside the south touches the black streak outside the west, the black streak inside the west touches the black streak outside the north, the black streak inside the north touches the black streak outside the east. The two outside black streaks in east and west are hexagonal, the two outside black streaks in north and south are triangular, the two inside black streaks in east and west are rectangular, the two internal black streaks inside in north and south are (also) rectangular.
Samgahaņi gāhā
puvvāvarā chalamsā, tamsā puņa dāhinuitarā bajjha | abbhamtarā cauramsā,
savvā vi ya kanharātio ||1|| Summery Verse
In the east and the west hexagonal, triangular outside south and north, inside rectangular all the black streaks.
Bhāsya
1. Akhādaga
The sanskrit is akşavāțaka which means the wrestling grounds.
1. Apte.
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6.91 kunharātio nam bhamte! kevatiyam āyāmenam? kevatiyam vikkhambhenam?
kevatiyam parikkhevenam punnattão? goyamā! asamkhejjāim joyanasahassāim āyāmenam, samkhejjāim joyanasahassāim vikkhambhenamn, asamkhejjāim joyanasahassāim parikkhevenum pannattao. What have been, O Lord! stated to be the length, breadth and perimeter of the black streaks? Gautama! their length is stated to be innumerable thousand yojanas, their
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