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[SUTTAS 359
edges, eight corners and shaped like the configuration of an anvil, and each side of it is (equal to) the breadth of one ussehamgula which is (equal to) half of (the thickness) of the amgula of the Ascetic Lord Mahavira. One thousand times of it is one pamanamgula.
359. By this standard of amgula,
six amgulas make one pada,
two padas or twelve amgulas make one vihatthi, two vihatthis make one rayani,
two rayanis make one kucchi,
two kucchis make one dhanu,
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two thousand dhanus make one gauya,
four gauyas make one joyana.
What is the purpose of this pamanamgula?
360. The reply is that) by means of this pamāṇamgula, the length, breadth, height, depth and circumference of the Pudhavi (of Ratnaprabhā, etc.), Kamdas (regions, e. g., of Ratnakamḍa, etc.), Pāyālas (Pātālakalasas, pitchershaped deeps,), Bhavanas (abodes of the Bhavanapati gods), the layers of the Bhavanas, hellish abodes, the rows of hellish abodes, the layers of hellish abodes, Kappas (abodes of gods, viz. Saudharmika, etc.), Vimāņas (related to the Graiveyaka gods), rows of the Vimāņas, the layers of the Vimanas, Tamkas (mountains with broken summits), Kūdas (peaks of mountains), selas (mountains without peaks), siharis (mountains with peaks), pabbhāras (slightly inclined mountains), Vijayas (viz. the kingdom of Kaccha, etc. vide Thaṇanga, 8, p. 293 of Suttagame, part. 1), Vakkhāras (a class of the moutains of the shape af elephant tusk, viz. Vidyutprabha, etc.), vāsas (continents), vasaharas (countries, viz. Bharat avarsa, etc.), vasaharapavvayas (the monutains dividing the seven kşetras, viz. Bharata, etc.), velas (seashore where water flows in eddies), veiyas (surrounding walls, such as paumavara, etc.), daras (gates such as Vijaya, etc.), toranas (archways), divas (islands), and samuddas (oceans) are measured.
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This (viz. pamāṇamgula) is stated to be threefold in brief, viz.
(1) seḍhiamgula (rectilinear);
(2( payaramgula (plane surface); (3) ghanamgula (cube).
The seḍht is (a row of) innumerable koḍākoḍi (1014) joyanas (that is, the loga when folded into a cube, has the rectilinear length of innumerable kotikoti joyaṇas which is equal to 7 rajjus), the patara is (equal
Vide the Commentary of Jivajiva pannati, 3. 156 and Pravacanasarod dhara Part II, p. 443 ff.
