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Bhagavai 3:1:23-27
-:27:evam pāņae vi, navaram batisam kevalakappe. evam accue vi, navaram sātirege battīsam kevalakappe jambuddive dive, annam tam ceva. There is a similar description in the case of the fourth heaven, named Māhendra, excepting that the area pervaded by the protean forms is equal to the area that is slightly bigger than the area of four complete Jambū islands. There is a similar description in the case of the fifth heaven, named Brahmaloka also, excepting that the area pervaded by the protean forms is equal to an area that is equal to eight Islands of Jambūdvīpa. There is a similar description in the case of the sixth heaven named Lāntaka, excepting that the area pervaded is slightly bigger than the area of eight Jambū islands. In the seventh heaven named Mahāśukra, the area pervaded is equal to the area of sixteen Islands of Jambūdvīpas. In the eighth heaven named Sahasrāra, the area pervaded is slightly bigger than the area of sixteen Islands of Jambūdvīpas. Similarly, also in the ninth heaven, the area pervaded is equal to the area of thirty-two complete Islands of Jambūdvīpas. Similarly, in the Acyuta heaven, the area pervaded is slightly bigger than the area of thirty-two complete Islands of Jambūdvīpas. The rest of the description is to be
similarly construed. 3.24 sevam bhamte! sevam bhamte! tti tacce goyame vāyubhūi anagāre samanam
bhagavam mahāvīram vamdai namamsai jāva viharai. “That is exactly so, O Lord; that is exactly so, O Lord!” Having said so, the Ascetic Vāyubhūti, the third (chief disciple) of Gautama lineage, offered homage and obeisance to the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra ...... up to leads the life
of an ascetic, sanctifying his self by the practice of self-restraint and austerity. 3.25 tae nam samane bhagavam mahāvīre annayā kayāi moyão nayurio namdaņão ceiyāo padinikkhamai padinikkhamittā bahiyā janavayavihāram viharai. The Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, on some other day, departed from the Nandana shrine in the city of Mokā. And departing from there, he roamed in the
countryside outside the city. Tāmalissa īsānimda-padam 3.26 teņam kālenam teņam samaenam rāyagihe nämain nagare hotthă-vannao
jāva parisā pajjuvāsai. The Topic of Status of Tāmalī as the Chief of the Isäna Heaven.
In that period, at that time, there was a city named Rājagrha ...... up to the
assembly offers adoration. 3.27 tenam kāleņam teņam samaenam īsāṇe devimde devarāyā īsāne kappe
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