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toward the East para it is white, I say : yellow 

 toward the South : apara Westward it is black ; and 

 to the North red like the dawning morn hdlarca. 

 Its height is 84,000 Yojanas: 15,000 below the 

 surface of the Earth. In the middle it is hol- 

 low hke the germ of the Lotos, Its breadth 

 is above 32,000 Yojanas: its circumference twice 

 that, added to it. Round it are four larger coun- 

 tries, and many smaller ones. Bhadrasva, Bhd- 

 rata, Cetumala to the West, and to the North 

 the Curavas, Curu, in the singular number: in 

 which are men abounding in righteousness. J he 

 circumference of the germ cani'ica is 90,000 

 Yojanas, the internal cucumference is 84,000 : 

 the stamina, filaments, or chi\'es ces'arajdla ex- 

 tend length-wise to the number of 100,000; 

 and their circumference is 300,000 Yojanas. Th6 

 four petals are 80,000 long, and as many broad. 

 I am now going to describe tliis great and won- 

 derful germ canfica, drupe, or pericarp. 



It consists of 100,000 angles: Bhrigu says 

 3000; Sa'verni 8000; Varshapaxi 1000: Bha'- 

 GURi says it is square; Ga'lava that it is hollow; 

 Gra'mya that it is like an ^^^, with the broad 

 end below. Urd'hvei'n, like three twisted locks 

 of hair, whilst others will have it to be spherical. 

 Every Rlshi represents this Lord of mountains, as 

 it appeared to him from hi,s station. Bhaiima', 

 I\DRA, and all the Gods, declare, that this largest 

 of all mountains, is a form, consisting of jewels 

 of numberless colours ; the abode of various tribes; 

 like gold, like the daWning morn, resplendent, 

 with a 1000 petals, like 1000 water pots, with 

 1000 leaves. 



Within it is adorned with the self moving cars 

 of the Gods, all beautiful: in its petals are the 

 abodes of the Gods, like heaven : in its thousand 

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