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The width of those pillars is said to be eighty-eight angulas, and their distance is known to be twenty-five kodandas. ||213||
The Siddhartha trees, Chaitya trees, ramparts, forest-vedikas, stupas, toranas with manastambhas, and pillar-ketus are all twelve times the height of the Tirthankaras' bodies. Wise men say that their width, etc., is in proportion to their length. ||214-215||
Similarly, wise men who know the Agamas have said that the height of forests, houses in forests, and mountains is the same, i.e., they are all twelve times the height of the Tirthankara's body. ||216||
Mountains are eight times wider than their height, and wise men have said that the diameter of stupas is slightly more than their height. ||217||
The Ganadharas, who are the crossers of the ocean of perfect knowledge, have said that the width of the forest-vedikas is one-fourth the height of the forest. ||218||
There were garlands, clothes, peacocks, lotuses, swans, Garuda, lions, bulls, elephants, and wheels on the flags, so there were ten types of them. ||219||
There were one hundred and eight flags of each type in each direction, and they were very high, resembling the waves of the ocean. ||220||
The assembly of clothes on those flags, moved by the wind, was so beautiful as if it wanted to call humans and gods to worship the Jina. ||221||
On the flags with garlands, there were divine garlands made of flowers hanging, and they seemed as if Indra had made them to show the simple result of the noble beings. ||222||
The flags with clothes were made of fine and white clothes, and they were flying in the wind, making them look like the big, high waves rising from the ocean of the sky. ||223||
The peacocks on the flags with peacocks were spreading their tails playfully, and they were swallowing the clothes with the wisdom of a snake, making them look like...