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the position thus: Two Varshas are situated like two bows north
and south. Four are placed longways. Ilavrita is as it were with
four petals. Sridhara. This gives 7 x 9000 + 34000 = 97000).
ILAVRITA IS THE CENTRAL VARSHA.
Sumeru is situated in the navel of this Varsha. This king of
mountains is gold all through. It is a laksha Yojanas high. If the
Earth chain be taken to be a lotus, this Meru is its pericarp. It is
32,000 Yojanas as the top and 16,000 Yojanas at the foot and 16,000
Yojanas under the ground.
(By saying 16000 Yojanas at the foot, 84000 Yojanas are left
out. Thus the Vishnu Purana says the Meru is 84000 Yojanas over
the ground and 16000 under the ground, at the top 32000 and at the
foot 16000. Sridhara. 16000 + 84000=100000).
On the north of Ilavrita are the three mountain ranges Nila,
Sveta and Sringavan in order. They are respectively the boundary
ranges of Ramayak, Hiranmaya and Kuru. They spread east and west
up to the salt ocean. They are two thousand Yojanas wide. In length,
each succeeding one is a little over one tenth part shorter than the
preceding one. (There is no difference in height and in width, Stidhara}.
So on the south of Ilavrita are the three ranges Nishadha,
Hemakuta and Himalaya spreading east and west like the preceding
ones. They are 10,000 Yojanas in height. They are the boundary
ranges respectively of Harivarsha, Kinpurusha and Bharata. (This
10,000 Yojanas is also the height of Nila, Sveta and Sringavn ??
The width of these ranges again is that of Nila, and others. By
Bharata we are to understand Nabhi.
On the west of Ilavrita is the Malyavat range and on the east
lies the Gandha Madana range, These ranges extend north up to the
Nila range and on the south up to the Nishadha range. They are
two thousand Yojanas wide. They are the boundary ranges of Ketu-
mala and Bhadrasva respectively. (East and west there is the Meru
surrounded by Ilavrita, then there are the two ranges Malyavat and
Gandha Madana, and the two varshas Bhadrasva and Ketumala and
nothing besides).
North and south, there is the Meru then Ilavrita, 6 mountain
ranges and 6 Varshas, 3 on each side and nothing else.
[Where do you then get a laksha of Yojanas? It is said;
Meru has a diametar of 16,000. Ilavrita has 18,000. The 6
Varshas have 6x9,000=54,000. The 6 mountain ranges have to-
gether a width of 6x2,000= 12,000. Thus north and south, we have
16,000+ 18,000+54,000+12,000= 100,000.
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