BUDIIISM. 



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Mali a Meru. In reference to this a Pali stanza states: 

 " When the sun rises on this continent (Jambudwipa) it is 

 mid-day in Wideha, (16) evening in Goyana and midnight at 



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 s3(^^eso zq6l6 ^)D©oQtS Utterakurutho agatha manussehi 

 awasithappadeso Kururattanthi naman labhi. "The sphere inha- 

 bited by men who arrived here from Utterakuru was called 

 Kururattan." (Mahanidane Sutta wannena.) 



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 ^(5t©^^o®t88q!^^S<9^eo3C33a3^^c3K)9s)^(5^^o Emamhi 

 depamhi yada udethi majjhanthiko hothi widehe depa kurumhi 

 depamhicha atthamethi goyana depe bhawathadda ratthin (See the 

 translation in the text.) Again it is added g<5*@0<^c59 ^s^eadj'sM^G 



©d3©©d<^cC<5sD<So Pubbecha depechaudenthikalamajjanthikohothicha 

 utterena goyanadepamhicha atthamethi emamhi depamhicha 

 majjaratthin. "When the sun rises in Pubbewideha, it is midday in 

 Utterakuru, evening in the continent of Goyana, and midnight in 

 this continent." (Comment on Dijhanikaya.) 



In the Aganya Sutta Wannena it is stated that " the moon 

 resides in the palace of a gem, and the outside is covered with 

 silver, both being cold. The sun resides within the palace of gold, 

 and the outside is covered with crystal both being hot. In size 

 the moon is 49 yoj anas in diameter, and 147 yojanas in circum- 

 ference : the sun in diameter 50 yojanas, in circumference 150 

 yojanas. The moon is below and the sun above, between them one 

 yoj ana. From the lowest part of the moon to the highest part of 

 the sun, a hundred yojanas ; the moon travels in a straight line, 

 slowly, and rapid crosswise ; on her two sides the planets travel. 

 The moon moves towards them as a cow to her calf ; the planets 

 do not change their position. The motion of the sun in a straight 

 line is rapid, and that crosswise slow. He is, on the day after the 

 new moon 10,000 yojanas away from the moon ; the moon then 

 appears like a line ; on the second day 10,000 more, thus gradually 

 till the day of full moon, at the rate of 10,000 yojanas, he is 

 farther and farther away from the moon. The moon then gradually 

 grows, and on the fifteenth day is full. Then on the first day, 

 again the sun travels 10,000 yojanas closer ; the second day 

 10,000 again, till the day of new moon, at the same rate daily. 

 The moon then gradually appearing less on the day of uposatha 



