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Raypaseniya-sutta.
where human beings live.... भरहेरवयाई-भरत, हैम, ऐरावत, हरि, विदेह, रम्यक, and हैरण्यवत-these are the seven divisions of Jamdudvip according to Jain geography. मागहवरदामपभासाई-holy. lands such as:-Magah, Vardam, and Pabhās. We are at loss to know that why the celestial beings were prompted to take the earth, water, and flowers from the mortal world, which is filled! with foul and nasty smell. facerrs—holy places: गंगासिंधुरत्तारत्तवईओ-गंगा, सिंधु, रोहित, रोहितास्या, हरित, हरिकान्ता, सीता, सीतादा, नारी, नरकान्ता, सुवर्णकूला, रुप्यकूला, रक्ता, रक्तोदा-these are the fourteen rivers which flow in the seveu Kshetras of जम्बूद्वीप (two in each respectively). चुलहिमवंतसिहरीवासहरपन्वया-are fabulous mountains, the where abouts of which we cannot trace in the map of the modern world. सवतुयर (सर्वतुवर) all sorts . . of pulses. सवोसहि all sorts of medicinal herbs. सिद्धत्थ (सिद्धार्थसर्षपक) rape-seed. . हेमवयएरवयाई-हिमवंत, ऐरावत etc.-are the continents in Janubudvip. रोहियरोहियंसा etc. names of rivers. सद्दावइ, वियडावइ वट्टवेयडू, महाहिमवंत-names of mountains. महापउम, महापुंडरीय names of the lakes. दह (हृद) lake (Interchange of syllables or Metathesis) afral
