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Then located at a distance of 800 yojanas across Lavaṇoda, with the same length and width are Ulkamukha Vidyujjihva, Meşamukha,*** and Vidyuddanta, in the northeast, etc., respectively.
After traversing 900 yojanas of Lavana Ocean, 4 Antaradvipas, named Guḍhadanta, Ghanadantaka, Śreşthadantaka, Suddhadantaka, 900 yojanas in length and breadth, are situated in the respective intermediate points. In this same way there are 28 at Mt. Sikharin. Added together, there are 56 in all.
On the other side of Manuşottara is the second half of Puskara. Surrounding Puskara is the Puşkara Ocean twice as large. Then come the continent and ocean Vāruṇivara; and beyond them the continent and ocean Kṣiravara. Then Ghṛtavara continent and ocean, and Ikṣuvara continent and ocean. Then comes the eighth continent, named Nandisvara, which resembles heaven.
Description of Nandisvara (704-738).
The diameter of its circle is 1,638,400,000 yojanas. It is a land of delights of the gods, with gardens of manifold designs, beautiful with the visits of gods devoted to the worship of the Jinendras. In its central part, there are 4 Añjana Mountains, the color of antimony,440 in succession in the directions, east, etc. At ground-level they are more than 10,000 yojanas in diameter and 1,000 yojanas at top. They have the height of the small Merus. 441 Of these, Devaramana is in the east, Nityodyata in the south, Svayamprabha in the west, and Ramaṇiya in the north. On top of them there are temples to the Arhats, 100 yojanas long, half as wide, and 70 yojanas high. In each of these there are 4 doors, 16 yojanas high,
489 697. This should probably be emended to Meghamukha. Cf. K.
p. 247.
40 706. Añjana is not really antimony, which is white, but antimony trisulphide, which is black.
441 707. I.e., 84,000 yojanas + 1000 underground.
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