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अध्याय-३
pūrva should be known as seventy lakh crore and fifty-six thousand crore years."1 This comes to 70560000000000 years. One pūrvakoți = 1 crore x 1 pūrva = 70560000000000 x 10000000 years.
The extent of Bharata has already been mentioned. It is stated again in another way.
भरतस्य विष्कम्भो जम्बूद्वीपस्य नवतिशतभागः ॥३२॥
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The width of Bharata region is one hundred and ninetieth part - 1/190 - that of Jambūdvīpa.
The width of the Bharata region is one hundred and ninetieth part of Jambūdvīpa, which is 1,00,000 yojana. It equals 526 6/19 yojana, as mentioned already (in sūtra 3-24). There is a mound surrounding Jambūdvīpa, which is encircled by the ocean Lavanasamudra, whose width is 2,00,000 yojana. The ocean Lavaṇasamudra is encircled by the island Dhātakīkhanda, whose width is 4,00,000 yojana.
The next sūtra is intended to describe regions in Dhātakīkhanda.
1 - This is also mentioned in another way: "1 pūrvāńga = 84 lakh years; 1 pūrva = 84 lakh < 1 pūrvāńga = 84 lakh 84 lakh years = 70560000000000 years. 1 pūrvakoți = 1 crore x 1 pūrva. (1 crore = 10 million = 100 lakh = 100,00,000) (see 'Harivansapurāņa', p. 133, and ‘Adipurāna', p. 693-694.)
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