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Vāruṇoda is pleasing with varied beverages; but Kṣiroda resembles milk with one-fourth part of ghee mixed with candied sugar. Ghṛtoda has water of freshly boiled cow's ghee; the others resemble the juice of sugar-cane whose end has been cut off and which contains four fragrant substances. Lavaṇoda, Kaloda, and Svayambhuramaņa are filled with fish, tortoises, etc., but not the other
oceans.
In this continent Jambudvipa there are always 4 each of Tirthakṛts, Cakrins, Visņus, and Balas, at the minimum. At the maximum, there are 34 Jinas and 30 kings, and twice as many in Dhataki and half of Puşkara."48
The Upper World (750-797)
Above this Human World, is the Upper World, magnificent, 7 rajjus high less 900 yojanas. In this there are 12 heavens: Saudharma, Īsāna, Sanatkumāra, Māhendra, Brahmaloka, Lantaka, Šukra, Sahasrara, Anata, Prāṇata, Āraṇa, and Acyuta. The 9 Graiveyakas are as follows: Sudarsana, Suprabuddha, Manorama, above those Sarvabhadra, Suviśāla, Sumanas, and above those Saumanasa, Pritikara, and Aditya. Above those are the 5 named Anuttara. Beginning from the east the palaces are named Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta, Aparājita, and Sarvarthasiddhaka in the center. Twelve yojanas above is Siddhaśilā, 45 lacs of yojanas long and wide. Three gavyūtas immediately above, in the (upper) sixth part of the fourth gavyūta are the siddhas at the end of Lokagratā.
443 749. The maximum of 34 is reached by one each in the 32 divisions of Videha, and in Bharata and Airavata. When there are only 4, there is one each in the northern and southern halves of East Videha and West Videha. When the maximum is 30, there are 28 in Videha, and one each in Bharata and Airāvata. The maximum number of Visņus, and Balas exists, when there is a minimum number of Cakrins and vice versa. The kings' refers to Visņus and Balas as well as Cakrins. Jamb. 172-3.
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