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 121 one thousand yojanas at top. They have the height of the small Merus.267 Of these, Devaramaņa is in the east, Nityodyata in the south, Svayamprabha in the west, and Ramaņiya in the north. On top of them there are temples to the Arhats, one hundred yojanas long, half as wide, and seventy yojanas high. In each of these there are four doors, sixteen yojanas high, eight yojanas deep, and eight wide. They are the homes of the gods Deva, Asura, Nāga, and Suparņa, and are known by their names. Within the temples are jeweled platforms, sixteen yojanas long and wide, and eight yojanas high. On the platforms are daises made of all kinds of jewels, whose length and width exceed the platforms, and on them are one hundred and eight eternal statues each of the Arhats named Rşabha, Vardhamāna, Candrānana, and Varişena 268 in the paryankaposture, made of jewels, attended each by a beautiful retinue. Each statue has two statues each of Nāgas, Yakşas, Bhūtas, and pitcher-carriers, and behind the statues is a statue of an umbrella-bearer. On the daises are incense-jars, wreaths, bells, the eight auspicious things, banners, umbrellas, festoons, baskets, boxes, and seats; and sixteen ornaments, such as full pitchers, etc. The ground has sand of shining gold-dust.
There are gleaming entrance pavilions the same size as the temples, theater-pavilions, arenas, jeweled platforms, beautiful stūpas and statues, fair caitya-trees, indradhvajas, and divine lotus-lakes in succession.
In the four directions from each of the Mt. Añjanas there are lotus-lakes, one hundred thousand yojanas square : Nandişeņā, Amoghā, Gostupā, Sudarśanā, Nandottarā, Nandā, Sunandā, Nandivardhanā, Bhadrā, Viśālā, Kumudā, Puņdarīkiņikā, Vijayā, Vaijayanti, Jayanti, Aparajitā. At a distance of five hundred yojanas from each of them there are great gardens, five hundred yojanas
267 707. I.e., 84,000 yojanas + 1,000 underground. 268 714. See I, n. 404.