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36] RĀJAPRAŚNIYA SUTRA north to south. It is crescent-moon shaped, having the brilliance of a heap of rays; It is numerous crores and crores of yojanas in length and breadth, and numerous crores and crores of yojanas in circumfernce; and there, it is said, are thirty-two hundred thousand palaces of the gods living in the Saudharma Kalpa. These heavenly abodes are said to be all made up of diamonds, bright... upto... beautiful. Right in the middle of these Vimānas there are five ornaments (or palaces), named as follows: (1) Asokāvatamsa, (2) Saptapamāvatamsa, (3) Champakā. vatamsa (4) Cbūtakāvatamsa, and (5) Saudharmāvatamsaka; in the centre those Avatamsakas were all made up of diamonds, brights...upto... beautiful. Crossing numerous thousands of yojanas to the east of the great Saudharmāyatmsaka Vimāna, [Page 285) one comes to the Sūryābha Vimana of the God Suryabha. It is twelve and half hundred thousand yojanas in length and breadth, and 3952848 yojanas in circumference. It is surrounded by a rampart on all sides. The rampart is three hundred yojanas in height; at the bottom, it is one hundred yojanas broad; at the centre, it was fifty yojanas in breadth; and above (at the top) twenty five yojanas in breadth; it is broad at the bottom, narrow at the centre and small (or tapering) at the top, of the shape of a cow's tail, all made of gold, and bright...upto... beautiful The rampart was decorated with various five-coloured cornices (made of gems), which were as follows:-Black, blue, red, yellow and white ones. Those cornices were one yojana in length, half a yojana in breadth, and three-fourths of a yojana in height, all made of gems (and diamonds), and bright...upto...beautiful. Every wing of
the Sūryābha Vimāna possessed one thousand doors. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
