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more than the weight of a plum, though it may be less in some places. The female bhogabhumija conceives but once, and that only at the end of her life!
There are ten kinds of special tree-like things termed kalpa vrikshas from which the lucky residents of the bhogabhumis satisfy their wants. Foods, drinks, clothes (from their silky barks), plates and cups, ornaments (flowery decorations), flowers, perfumes, musical instruments (flutes and the like) are all supplied in abundance by these vrikshas (trees). There are trees also that radiate powerful phosphorescence all round, and the illumination is strong enough to outshine the light of the sun and the moon, if it does penetrate into the regions of the bhogabhumis. These trees also supply residences and pavilions for the use of the lucky residents. Probably their hollow trunks have to do duty for rooms. And if a certain number of them grow together so as to constitute a compound in the centre, the systematical lines of the hollow niches in their trunks would very naturally look like rows of rooms in a mansion,
There is no sense of property or appropriation known in the bhogabhumis. Nature is too lavishly abundant for that to be necessary. Crimes, too, are not committed by the bhoga
