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rain will descend from the clouds, in consequence of which 

 cultivated plants and herbs, forests, grass and trees will be- 

 come completely dried and burnt up. At the expiration 

 of a long period after this, a second sun will appear, (27), and 

 by the heat of these two suns the small rivers, ponds and lakes 

 will be dried Up and disappear. After another long period 

 a third sun will arise, and by the heat of these three suris 

 the large rivers, as the Ganges, the Jumna, &c, will be 

 completely dried up. By the rising of a fourth sun, the 

 seas into which these large, rivers flow will be dried up. 

 A fifth sun will afterwards arise, and by the heat of five 

 suns at one time the great ocean (84,000 yoduns deep), will 

 be gradually dried up until only a few puddles remain, A 

 sixth sun will arise, and by the conjoined heat of these six 

 suns, the great earth and Maha Meru will smoke continu- 

 ally like the kiln of a potter. At length a seventh sun 

 will arise ; and by the heat of these seven suns, this great 

 earth and Maha Meru, the King of Mountains, will burn, 

 blaze up and become one mass of fire, and the flames will 

 by the wind ascend as high as the Brahma worlds ; and by 

 the accumulated heat of the burning and blazing mountain, 

 is rocky peaks, from 100 to 500 yoduns in extent, will be 

 destroyed, and finally this great earth and Maha Meru 

 will be so completely consumed that even ashes shall not 

 appear nor exist. Even as when butter or oil is consumed 

 in a vesselno residuum appears or exists, thus this great 



(27.) When there are two suns, one woijld be rising and the 

 other setting. When there are three, one rising, one setting, and 

 one on the zenith, &c., g^ce^6'c3^o^Q6^^3 ( ^^<Q^96(^^5D^s®^S'<S 

 ^^c3^D^(36(^^3Q(^^^5^'2553^^(^&^;^^^aS'fe^)^K)0^S Dutiye 

 sureyekale eko udeti eko atthameti, tatiyekale eko udeti <<$kd atthe- 

 meti eko majjehoti. (Manorathapurene <se Q) 



