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and Ruyaga there are the circular mountains all bearing the same name (manḍalıya pavvaya, Than. 166b) following the pattern of the Manussuttara. They are 42,000 and 84,000 joy. high and 100 joy deep and their diameter decreases from 10,000 down to 1,000 joy.1 The Ruyagavara has 4x8 summits." The last five continents are simple again. Their names are Deva, Nāga, Jakkha, and Sayambhuramana and they are washed by seas called by their names.
§124. Of the gods belonging to the centre world it is only the stars that are quoted in the acknowledged quaternary number, though, apart from them, we have numerous local deities. The superior gods in the Jambuddiva and the Lavana sea haven been mentioned already. Even individual places of the Jambuddīva have a god of their own bearing their name and for us mostly leading a wholly vague existence. With a few exceptions only he appears as the second answer to the question as to why a country, a hill, etc, bears his name, in that this name, e g. ofthe Mandara, is referred to as transmitted from that of the god to the resp. locality. The lakes from which the great rivers spring belong to the goddesses named Siri, Lacchi, Hiri, Buddhi, Dhii, Kitti. The reservoirs at the foot of the mountains have islands inhabited by the deities of these rivers the names of which they bear. Apart from these and many other individual deities we have different kinds of localized gods. On the Long Veyaddhas in Bharaha and Eravaya measuring 25 joy. in height as well as in their copies
the end of his Jambudvipasamāsa he is in conformity with Anuog 90a by quoting after the Arunabhāsa (sic Anuog) Arunavara Kundala, Rucaka, Aruna (Anuog. correctly Abharana), Vastra, Gandha, Utpala, Tilaka, Prthivi, Nidhana (Nihi), Ratna, Varsadhara, Hrada, Nadi, Vijaya, Vaksāra, kalpa, Indra, Pura (Kuru), Mandara, Aväsa, Kuta, Nahṣatra, Candra, three Surya, etc as above The separation of these names is not quite certain To each of these continents there pertains a sea of the same name comm. on Anuog. discusses some more deviations from the Cunni
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3 The Div contain nothing as to these mountains. The statements made above follow Than and Samav. In the verses rendered by Sthan. 167a the diametres differ, thus 1,022 to 424 with the Kundalavara, 1022 to 4,024 with the Ruyagavara Sthan 480b notes these deviations Ibd partly even other continents are quoted, so that Kundalavara is the 11th and Ruyaga (sic) the 13th
4. Than 436b
