Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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8 yojanas deep, and 8 wide. They are the homes of the gods Deva, Asura, Nāga, and Suparņa, and are known by their names. Within the temples are jeweled platforms, 16 yojanas long and wide, and 8 yojanas high. On the platforms are daises made of all kinds of jewels, whose length and width exceed the platforms, and on them are 108 statues each of the immortal Arhats named Rşabha, Vardhamāna, Candrānana, Vārişena in the paryankaposture, made of jewels, attended each by a beautiful retinue. Each statue has 2 statues each of Nāgas, Yaksas, Bhūtas, pitcher-carriers, and behind the statues is a statue of an umbrella-carrier. On the platforms there are incense-jars, wreaths, bells, the eight auspicious things, banners, umbrellas, festoons, baskets, boxes, and seats; and sixteen ornaments, such as pitchers full of water, etc. The ground has sand of shining gold-dust.
There are gleaming entrance-pavilions the same size as the temples, theater-pavilions, arenas, jeweled platforms, beautiful stūpas and statues, fair caitya-trees, indradhvajas, and divine lotus-lakes in succession.
In the four directions from each of the Añjana Mountains there are lotus-lakes, 100,000 yojanas square: Nandişeņā, Amoghā, Gostūpā, Sudarśanā, Nandottarā, Nandā, Sunandā, Nandivardhanā, Bhadrā, Viśālā, Kumudā, Puņdarikiņikā, Vijayā, Vaijayanti, Jayanti, Aparājitā. At a distance of 500 yojanas from each of them there are great gardens, 500 yojanas wide and 100,000 long, named Asoka, Saptacchadaka, Campaka, and Cuta. Within the lotus-lakes are the crystal Dadhimukha Mountains, cylinder-shaped, characterized by terraces, gardens, etc., as decorations. They are 64,000 yojanas high, and 1,000 buried in the ground; 10,000 in diameter at top and bottom.
Between each two lotus-lakes there are 2 Ratikara Mts, so there are 32 Ratikara Mts. On the Dadhimukha Mts. and on the Ratikara Mts., there are eternal shrines of the Arhats, just as on the Añjana Mts. Likewise at the