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THE INITIATION AND OMNISCIENCE OF AJITA III wide. On Mahāhimavat is a lake named Mahāpadma, twice the length and width of the lake Padma. The lake, Tigiñchi, on Nişadha is twice the size of Mahāpadma; the lake Keśarin on Nila is the same size as Tigiñchi; the lake Mahāpuņdarika on Rukmin is equal to Mahāpadma ; the lake Pundarîka on śikharin is equal to Padma. In all the lakes, Padma, etc., there are full-blown lotuses rooted ten yojanas in the water. Moreover, on these (live the goddesses) Śri, Hri, Dhịti, Kirti, Buddhi, and Lakşmi, respectively, with life-periods of a palya, together with Sāmānikas, gods of the councils, body-guards, and armies.
In Bharatakşetra there are the great rivers, Gangā and Sindhu; in the zone named Haimavata, Rohitā and Rohitāńsā; in the Harivarşaka zone, the rivers Harit and Harikāntā; in the Mahāvidehas the best rivers Sītā and Sitodā; Narakāntā and Narikāntā in the zone Ramyaka; Svarņakūlā and Rūpyakülā in the zone Hairanyavata; Raktā and Raktoda in the zone Airavata. The first of each pair flows to the east and the second to the west. The great rivers Ganga and Sindhu are each attended by fourteen thousand best rivers. Each pair of the others is attended by twice as many rivers as the preceding pair up to Śītā and Śítodā. The northern rivers (north of Videha) are equal to the southern. Šītā and Śītodā, however, are attended by five hundred and thirty-two thousand rivers each.24
Bharata is five hundred twenty-six and six-nineteenths yojanas wide. Then the zones and the mountains bounding the zones become twice as wide successively to the north, up to Videha. The mountains and zones to the north (of Videha) are the same size as those in the south. These are the sizes of the zones and the mountains bounding the zones.
246 585. Each Videha (East and West) has 32 rivers, each with 14,000 tributaries, and each of the Kurus has 84,000, thus making the total of 532,000.
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