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thousands. These added together make a Yojanapinda. At this rate the continent of Jambu includes seven thousand yojanas; Godáníya28 includes eight thousand yojanas; Púrvavidcha nine thousand yojanas; the island of Uttarakuru ten thousand yojanas. Calculating in this way the four continents of this region would amount to a full hundred kotis. The great oceans of these four continents also number a hundred kotis. The Chakravála and the Maháchakravála mountains each include a hundred kotis. So does each of the following; viz.. the kingdoms of the four Malárájika Devas, the region of the Trayastriñsa Devas, that of the Yamas, that of the Tushitas, hat of the Nirmáņaratis, that of the Paraniṛmitavasavartis, that of ine Brahmakayikas, that of the Brahmapurohitas, that of the Brahmapársadyas, that of the Mahábrahmas, that of the Parit táblas, that of the Apramáṇabhas, that of the Abhás'varas, that of the Parittasubhas, that of the Apramanasubhas, that of the Subbakritsnas, that of the Anabhrakas, that of the Punyaprasavas, that of the Vrihatphalas, that of the Asangisattvas, that of the Avṛihas, that of the Sudrisas, that of the Sudarsauas, and that of the Akanishtha Devas. What 1s said i; this. The three thousand great thousand regions are immense and extensive. Whatever hundred yojanas of atoms are included in these three thousand great thousand regions, and whatever thousand yojanas to kotis of yojanas, whatever niyntas of yojanas, and yojana-agrasáras are calculated, are all computed on the basis of atoms, so there are countless numbers of atoms in these three thousand great thousand regions."
Thus, on the rules of numbers having been explained by the Bodhisattva, Arjuna, the astrologer-councillor, and the whole host of the Sakyas were pleased, exhilarated, delighted and wonder-struck. Each of these remained garbed in a single piece of cloth, and covered the Bodhisattva with all their other clothes and ornaments. The astrologer-councillor Arjuna recited these two Gáthás:
"Such wonderful knowledge in reckoning kotis'ata, ayuta,
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