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THE INITIATION AND OMNISCIENCE OF AJITA
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Gostupa, Śivaka, Śankha, and Manohṛda; and are in the (four) directions at forty-two thousand yojanas (from Jambudvipa). They are seventeen hundred and twentyone yojanas high, ten hundred and twenty-two wide at the base, and four hundred and twenty-four at the top. On top of them all there are gleaming palaces.
Karkoṭaka, Kārdamaka, Kailāśa, and Aruṇaprabha, made of all jewels, are the mountains of the Indras of the Aṇuvelādhārins.248 The gods Karkoṭaka, Vidyujjihva, Kailāśa, and Aruṇaprabha, respectively, live always on these.
At twelve thousand yojanas (from Jambudvipa) in the intermediate directions in the east are the two islands of the Moon, with an equal width and length (i.e. 12,000). At the same distance in the west are the two islands of the Sun; and also at the same distance is Gautamadvipa, the abode of Susthita.249 On these are palaces, the abodes of the inner and outer suns and moons of Lavanoda.
The water of Lavaṇoda is salt.
Description of Dhātakīkhaṇḍa (640-643)
Next, the second continent, named Dhātakikhaṇḍa, twice as wide, surrounds Lavaṇoda. Everything that is in Jambudvipa Meru, zones, mountain-ranges, mountains— is called by the same name in Dhātaki, but is twice as large. It is divided by the Iṣvākāra Mts. running north and south, and in the east and west halves has the same names as Jambudvipa. The mountain-ranges and the Iṣvākāras are like the spokes of a wheel, high as Niṣadha, touching Kaloda and Lavaṇa, and the zones are between the spokes.
Kaloda (644)
The ocean surrounding Dhātakikhaṇḍa, eight hundred thousand yojanas wide, is called Kaloda.
248 635. These are subordinates of the Veladharins (PE s.v.). Their palaces are in the intermediate directions.
249 638. The lord of Lavanoda. Pravac. 883-89, p. 258a.
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