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THE EXTENT OF THE OTHER REGIONS
97 तद्विगुणद्विगुणविस्तारा वर्षधरवर्षा विदेहान्ताः ॥२५॥ Taddvigunadvigunavistārā varşadharavarşā videhāntāḥ
(25) 25. The mountains and the regions are double in width up to Videha.
Those whose widths are double and double that of Bharata are those double in width. Which are double in width? The mountains and the regions. Are all double in width? No. Upto Videha these are double in width of the preceding ones.
What are the widths of the mountains and the regions in the north?
उत्तरा दक्षिणतुल्याः
Uttarā dakšiņatulyāḥ 26. Those in the north are equal to those in the south.
By 'uttarā' the regions and the mountains from Airāvata up to Nila are taken. These are equal to those in the south, namely Bharata eto. This rule applies to all that has been described before. Therefore, the lakes, the lotuses and the rest are also equal in magnitude etc.
Are the experiences and so on of human beings the same or different in these regions ? भरतैरावतयोवृद्धिहासौ षट्समयाभ्यामुत्सर्पिण्य
वसर्पिणीभ्याम् Bharatairāvatayorvsddhihrāsau șațsamayābhyā
mutsarppinyavasarppinibhyām (27) 27. In Bharata and Airāvata there is rise and fall (regeneration and degeneration) during the six periods of the two aeons of regeneration and degeneration.
On what basis are there rise and fall? It is on the basis of the six periods of regeneration and degeneration. Of what regions? Of Bharata and Airāvata. The rise and fall do not apply to the regions, as these are impossible in the case of the regions. These happen to the human beings in these regions. Or the case denoted (by Bharatairāvatayoḥ) is not the sixth, but the seventh one of location. That is, the rise and fall (increase and decrease) pertain to human beings in Bharata
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