Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 1

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

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intermediate points of the continent there are 4 Ratikara Mts., having a length and width of 10,000 yojanas, and a height of 1,000 yojanas, made of all kinds of jewels, divine, the shape of a jhallari. In the eight directions on the two southern Ratikara Mts. are the residences of the eight queens of Sakra; on the two northern mountains, those of the eight queens of Iśāna. They are 100,000 yojanas distant from each other, 100,000 yojanas square, and adorned with temples of the Jinas.
Sujātā, Saumanasã, Arcimāli, Prabhakarā, Padmā, Śivā, Suci, Añjanā, Bhūtā, Bhutavatansikā, Gostūpā, Sudarśanā, Amalā, Apsaras, Rohini, Navami, Ratnā, Ratnoccaya, Sarvaratna, Ratnasañcaya, Vasu, Vasumitrikā, Vasubhāgā, Vasundhara, Nandottarā, Nandā, Uttarakuru, Devakuru, Kṛṣṇā, Kṛṣṇārāji, Rāmā, Rāmarakṣitā respectively, beginning with the east.442 In them the gods with all their splendor together with their retinues make eight-day festivals in the shrines on the holy days of the holy Arhats.
Then the ocean Nandiśvara surrounds Nandiśvara; after that Arunadvipa and Arunoda. Then come Aruṇavaradvipa and the ocean by that name; next Aruṇābhāsa and Aruṇābhāsa Ocean. Then Kundaladvipa and the ocean Kuṇḍaloda come next; then Rucakadvipa and Rucaka Ocean. The oceans and continents with these auspicious names are each twice as large as the preceding Of these the last is the ocean Svayambhuramaṇa.
one.
In the two and a half continents, the Bharata-zones, the Airavata-zones, and the Mahavideha-zones, except the Devakurus and Uttarakurus, are karmabhumis.
Kaloda, Puşkaroda, Svayambhuramana have water that can be drunk, but Lavana Ocean has salt water.
442 737. Elsewhere, see K. p. 255, only 16 palaces are namedone for each queen; and 16 of these names belong to the queens themselves. But in this passage it is clearly stated that there is a palace in each of the 8 directions.