Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 2

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

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THE INITIATION AND OMNISCIENCE OF AJITA 113 fourth ; fifty yojanas wide and half as high. On its northern and southern slopes at ten yojanas from the ground are two rows of Vidyādhara-cities, ten yojanas wide. In the south there are fifty cities with kingdoms of the Vidyādhara-kings; in the north there are sixty. At ten yojanas immediately above the Vidyādhara-rows, there are two Vyantara rows adorned with the abodes of the Vyantaras. At five yojanas above the rows of Vyantaras there are nine peaks. There is a similar Vaitādhya in Airavata.
The continent Jambūdvipa has a fortification in the form of a wall, made of diamond, eight yojanas high. At its base it is twelve yojanas wide ; in the middle, eight; and four at the top. Above it is a lattice, two gavyūtas high, a delightful pleasure resort of the Vidyādharas. Above the lattice is a beautiful terrace, named Padmavara, the pleasure-ground of the gods. In this wall there are four gateways in the east and other directions, Vijaya, Vaijayanta, Jayanta, and Aparājita respectively.
In the space between Kșudrahimavat and Mahāhimavat, there is a round Mt. Vaitādhya, named Sabdāpātin. Between Sikharin and Rukmin is Mt. Vikațāpātin ; Gandhāpātin is between Mahāhimavat and Nişadha ; Mālyavat is between the Nila and Rukmin Mountains. All are cylindrical shaped and one thousand yojanas high.
Description of Lavanoda (619-639) Next, surrounding Jambūdvipa and twice as wide, is the ocean named Lavaņoda, sunk one thousand yojanas in the ground. Its water increases in height very gradually for a distance of ninety-five thousand yojanas from both sides. In the middle there is a crest with a level width 246
246 621. I think the kramavistětau of the ed. must be emended to sama', referring not to the vistặti properly speaking, but to the depth. Although Hem. gives 1,000 yojanas as the depth of the ocean (depth and height being counted from the surface of the earth), it is really the depth of only the crest (sikhā), according to other sources,