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CHAPTER THREE
To the north of the Nişadha Mts, and to the south of Meru are the Vidyutprabha Mts. and the Saumanasa Mts. in the west and east. They have the shape of an elephant's tusk, almost touching Meru at the end. Between them are the bhogabhumis, the Devakurus, eleven thousand eight hundred and forty-two yojanas wide. On each side of each of five lakes divided by Sitodā are ten mountains of gold, making a total of one hundred. There on the east and west banks of Sitodā are the mountains Vicitrakūta and Citrakūta. They are one thousand yojanas in height and the same in diameter at the base. The diameter at the top is half of that.
To the north of Meru and to the south of the Nila Mts. are the Gandhamādana and the Mālyavat Mts., with the shape of an elephant's tusk. Between them are the very charming Uttarakurus with one hundred golden mountains at the sides of the five lakes divided by Śitā. On the banks of the river Śītā are two mountains named Yamaka, corresponding to the golden Vicitrakūta and Citrakūta.
East of the Deva- and Uttarakurus, they are called East Videhas, and to the west, West Videhas, like different countries to each other. In each there are sixteen provinces inaccessible to each other, separated by rivers and mountains, suitable to be conquered by a Cakrin, Kaccha, Mahākaccha, Sukaccha, Kacchavat, Āvarta, Mangalāvarta, Puşkala, Puşkalāvati, are the northern provinces of East Videha. The southern are Vatsaka, Suvatsa, Mahāvatsa, Ramyavat, Ramya, Ramyaka, Ramaṇīya, Mangalavat. The ones in West Videha in the south are Padma, Supadma, Mahāpadma, Padmāvati, Sankha, Kumuda, Nalina, and Nalinavat. The northern provinces in the West Videhas are Vapra, Suvapra, Mahāvapra, Vaprāvati, Valgu, Suvalgu, Gandhila, and Gandhilāvati.
In the center of Bharata is Mt. Vaitādhya, dividing it into north and south, extending to the east and west oceans, with a base in the ground of six yojanas and a
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