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CHAPTER THREE
Puşkaradvipa (645-652)
The definition of names and countries of Meru, etc., and the Işvākāras which was given for Dhataki is true also for half of Puşkara. But in this half of Puskara the divisions of the zones, etc., are known to be twice as large as the divisions of the zones, etc., of Dhatakikhaṇḍa.
There are four small Merus in Dhataki and half of Puşkara, smaller than Meru by fifteen thousand yojanas. At the ground their diameter is less than Meru's by six hundred yojanas. Their first division is no less than big Meru's. The second is smaller by seven thousand yojanas; the third by eight thousand.250 Bhadraśāla and Nandana are like Meru's. The grove Saumanasa, five hundred yojanas wide, is fifty-five thousand yojanas above. Pandaka, four hundred ninety-four yojanas wide, is twentyeight thousand yojanas above. The diameter at the top and bottom, and the foundation are equal 251 to big Meru's, and the crest is also equal to its.
So, this is the Human World, two and a half continents, two oceans, thirty-five zones, five Merus, thirty zone-mountains, five Devakurus, five Uttarakurus, and one hundred and sixty provinces.252
Manuşottara (655-660)
Beyond it is the mountain-range, Manuṣottara, round like a city wall, surrounding the Human World. It is situated at the half-way line of Puskara, golden, seventeen hundred twenty-one yojanas high, buried in the ground four hundred thirty and one-fourth yojanas, ten hundred and twenty-two yojanas in diameter at the bottom, seven hundred and twenty-three at the middle, and four hundred
250 649.
They are 85,000 yojanas in total height, with 1000 underground. The first section is 500, the second 55,500, and the third 28,000 yojanas high. The diameter at ground level is 9,400 yojanas.
251 652. Equal in height-1,000 yojanas. 252 654. Vijaya, the divisions of Videha.
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