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point of view of matter (davvao), time (kālao) and condition (bhāvao).
tappa might be talpa 'bed' (cf. paliyanka in V 94), but according to Abhay. it is tapra: udupaka, also adho-mukha-sarāv'ākāra-samsthāna 'shaped like a dish turned upside down'; cf. KIRFEL, Kosmographie p. 209 seq.--supaitthagasamthiya also supaitthiya-s. XIII 45b; cf. paitthiya in I 65; Abhay. also thinks of a vessel: āropita-vārak'ādi.
2 (525b) a. Memorandum on the extent of Jambuddiva [and the whole world]: jāva refers to Jambudd. gb. b. The extent of the world is illustrated in the following way: [1] The velocity with which a god with great magic power (mah’iddhīya) moves (deva-gai) is so great that, starting from the top of Mount Mandara, he could reach, before they touch the ground, four offerings (bali-pinda) which four goddesses of the cardinal points (disākumārī mahattariyā) standing below (ahe) would simultaneously (jamaga-samagam) throw, each of them in her own specific direction, away from (bahiyâbhimuhio) Jambuddīva. [2] Six such swift gods could not reach the end of the world if setting out from Mount Mandara in the six directions they should travel during the life-span of a new-born baby (dāraya) possessing a quantity of life of a thousand years. Even that baby's posterity up to the seventh generation, yea even his name and family (nāma-goya) would have faded away before the gods reach the boundaries of the world, although within such a period the distance still to cover would be only 1 of the distance already covered (gayāu se agae asamkhejjai-bhāge etc.).
c. Memorandum on the extent of the non-world, ref. to II 16a. d. The extent of the non-world illustrated: the same as b above with [1] eight goddesses of the cardinal and intermediate directions throwing their eight offerings, and [2] ten gods travelling in the ten directions, the baby having a quantity of life of a hundred thousand years. The distance covered by the gods within the space of time thus illustrated would be only be of the distance they still would have to cover to reach the limits of the non-world (gayāu se agae añanta-gune etc.).
3 (526b) The soul-units (eg’indiya- etc. up to aộindiya-[jīva-1 paesa) that touch each other (anna-m-anna-baddha etc.) within one space-unit of the world (logassa ... egammi āgāsa-paese)
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