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the place called Îshatprâgbhâra ?, which has the form of an umbrella; (there the perfected souls go). (58)
It is forty-five hundred thousand Yôganas long, and as many broad, and it is somewhat more than three times as many in circumference. (59)
Its thickness is eight Yôganas, it is greatest in the middle, and decreases 2 toward the margin, till it is thinner than the wing of a fly. (60)
This place, by nature pure, consisting of white gold, resembles in form an open umbrella, as has been said by the best of Ginas. (61)
(Above it) is a pure blessed place (called Sita), which is white like a conch-shell, the anka-stone 3, and Kunda-flowers; a Yogana thence is the end of the world. (62)
The perfected souls penetrate the sixth part of the uppermost Krôsa of the above-mentioned) Yôgana. (63)
There at the top of the world reside the blessed perfected souls, rid of all transmigration, and arrived at the excellent state of perfection. (64)
The dimension of a perfected soul is two-thirds of the height which the individual had in his last existence. (65)
The perfected souls, considered singly, (as individuals) have a beginning but no end; considered
Similar details are given in the Aupapâtika Sätra (ed. Leumann, $ 163 f.).
9 According to the commentator, who quotes scripture, it decreases an angula every Yôgana.
8 Compare XXXIV, 9 and note. The commentators here treat anka as a separate substance without offering any explanation. The Dipika writes sîtâ instead of sîtâ.
• Or 333} dhanus.
