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deeply impressed. Goy., having heard the rumour (ref. to the Niyanth'uddesa, cf. VII 101 comm.), questions Mv. on the subject. Mv. explains that there are continents and oceans (ref. to Jiv. [Div.] 176a), and that in Jambuddiva, the Lavaṇa Ocean and Dhayaisaṇḍa there are substances (davvāim) both with and without colour, smell, taste and tactile qualities, which touch and interpenetrate each other (anna-m-anna-baddhāim a.-puṭṭhāim jāva [= a.-baddha-puṭṭhāim a.-] ghaḍattāe ciṭṭhanti). Siva, having been informed of these statements, goes to Mv. in the garden Sahasambavaṇa near Hatthiṇāpura. His conversion etc. up to his salvation, ref. to Usabhadatta in IX 331c.
2 (521a) Goy. questions Mv. on the conditions of him who is in the process of being liberated (sijjhamāna), ref. to Uvav. 156-159.
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1 (521b) * a. The world from the point of view of place (khetta - loga, as against davva-, kāla- and bhāva-loga) and its parts, viz the seven hells of the nether world, the ૐ continents and oceans of the central world and the fifteen regions (Sohamma up to Isimpabbhāra) of the upper world. b. The nether world has the shape of a boat (tappa), the central world that of a cymbal (jhallari), the upper world that of a drum standing upright (uddha-muinga, cf. V 94); the whole of the three worlds is [like a] firmly supported (supaitthaga-samthiya) [broad-bottomed vessel, according to SCHUBRING, Lehre par. 103]; ref. to VII 12. c. The non-world (aloga) has the shape of a hollow globe (jhusira-gola). d. As for the question whether the three worlds consist of souls etc. ref. is made to the text 'Inda disa' in X 11. e-f. The world and the non-world in connection with the fundamental entities, ref. to II 10. g. On the question whether the fundamental entities are completely or only partly comprised in one unit of space (egammi āgāsa-paese) of each of the three worlds, of the worlds taken as a whole and of the non-world. h. The three worlds and the non-world from the
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