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CHAPTER THREE
wide and a hundred thousand long, named Aśoka, Saptacchadaka, Campaka, and Cūta. Within the lotus-lakes are the crystal Mt. Dadhimukhas, cylinder-shaped, marked by terraces, gardens, etc., as decorations. They are sixtyfour thousand yojanas high, and one thousand buried in the ground; ten thousand in diameter at the top and bottom.
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Between each two lotus-lakes there are two Mt. Ratikaras, making a total of thirty-two Mt. Ratikaras. On the Mt. Dadhimukhas and the Mt. Ratikaras, there are eternal shrines of the Arhats, just as on the Mt. Añjanas. Likewise at the intermediate points of the continent there are four Mt. Ratikaras, having a length and width of ten thousand yojanas, and a height of one thousand, made of all kinds of jewels, divine, the shape of a gong.
In the eight directions on the two southern Mt. Ratikaras are the residences of the eight queens of Śakra; on the two northern mountains, those of the eight queens of Īsāna. They are a hundred thousand yojanas distant from each other, a hundred thousand yojanas square, and adorned with temples of the Jinas. They are Sujātā, Saumanasā, Arcimāli, Prabhākarā, Padmā, Śivā, Śuci, Añjana, Bhūtā, Bhūtāvatansika, Gostūpā, Sudarśanā, Amalā, Apsaras, Rohini, Navami, Ratna, Ratnoccaya, Sarvaratna, Ratnasañcaya, Vasu, Vasumitrikā, Vasubhāgā, Vasundhara, Nandottara, Nanda, Uttarakuru, Devakuru, Kṛṣṇā, Kṛṣṇarāji, Râmã, Rāmarakṣitā, respectively, beginning with the east.259 In these the gods and their retinues with all magnificence make eight-day festivals in the shrines of the holy Arhats on auspicious days.
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737. the queens.
Elsewhere (cf. K., p. 255) this list includes the names of The first 4 names are names of islands, the next 4 of queens, etc. But Hem. gives no intimation that any of the names are those of queens and seems to say distinctly that there was a palace in each of the 8 directions. Each queen would have two palaces in that
case.
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