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delightful pleasure-resort of the Vidyādharas. Above the lattice is a beautiful terrace, named Padmavara, the pleasure-ground of the gods. In this wall there are 4 gates in the east and other directions, named respectively, Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta, and Aparājita.
In the space between Kșudrahimavat and Mahāhimavat, there is a round Vaitādhya mountain, named Śabdāpātin. Between Sikharin and Rukmin is Mt. Vikațāpatin ; Gandhāpātin is between Mahāhimavat and Nişadha; Mālyavat is between the Nila and Rukmin Mountains. All are cylindrical shaped and 1000 yojanas high.
Description of Lavaņoda (619–39) Next, surrounding Jambūdvīpa, and twice as wide, is the ocean named Lavaņoda. It is sunk 1000 yojanas in the ground, and its water increases very gradually in depth for a distance of 95,000 yojanas from both sides. In the middle there is a crest uniformly 10,000 yojanas wide, 16,000 yojanas high. In addition to that, at the time of the tides there is a decrease and increase up to 2 gavyūtas. In it, in the directions, east, etc., there are 4 Pātālavessels, named Vadavāmukha, Keyūpa, Yūpaka, Isvara, respectively, beginning with the east. They are 100,000 yojanas high; have walls of diamond 1,000 yojanas thick; are 10,000 yojanas wide at top and bottom; and have water in the third part supported by wind, resembling large clay water-jars. In them, the gods Kāla, Mahākāla, Velamba, and Prabhañjana, respectively, live in pleasurehouses. Here there are others--1,000 yojanas high, with walls to yojanas thick, 100 yojanas wide at the bottom 482 and at the mouth-7884 small Pātāla-vessels, with waters mixed in the middle part and raised by the wind. Nāgakumāras to the number of 42,000, like ministers, are always controlling the inner waves in this ocean. There are
488 627. Both the larger and smaller vessels have a diameter in the middle equal to the height. K. p. 243.
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