CHAPTER XVII ~Legend of the Trayastrimsas Heaven~ From this they proceeded southeast for eighteen yojanas, and found themselves in a kingdom called Sankâs'ya, at the place where Buddha came down, after ascending to the Trayastrims'as heaven , and there preaching for three months his Law for the benefit of his mother .

Fifty yojanas northwest from the monastery there is another, called "The Great Heap."

Having crossed the Ganges, and gone south for three yojanas, the travellers arrived at a village named A-le, containing places where Buddha preached the Law, where he sat, and where he walked, at all of which topes have been built.

CHAPTER XXIV ~Where Buddha Renounced the World~ East from here four yojanas, there is the place where the heir-apparent sent back Chandaka, with his white horse; and there also a tope was erected.

The second was that spoken of heresay about B.C. 300.] CHAPTER XXVI ~Remarkable Death of Ânanda~ Four yojanas on from this place to the east brought the travellers to the confluence of the five rivers.

The travellers went on from this to the southeast for nine yojanas, and came to a small solitary rocky hill, at the head or end of which was an apartment of stone, facing the souththe place where Buddha sat, when Sakra, Ruler of Devas, brought the deva-musician, Pañchasikha, to give pleasure to him by playing on his lute.

From this place, after travelling to the west for four yojanas, the pilgrims came to the city of Gayâ; but inside the city all was emptiness and desolation.

And the king Bhima was struck with astonishment, and reflected upon the (probable) cause of Rituparna's coming, having passed over a hundred yojanas.

And hearing it, he hath come here, by the help of excellent steeds fleet as the wind and capable of going a hundred yojanas.

Except thee, O lord of earth, there is no one in this world, who in one day can clear, O King, a hundred yojanas with horses.

It is for thy good that she hath devised this unrivalled scheme, for, except thee, none on earth is capable of travelling in a single day a hundred yojanas.

The learned have said that the sacred tirtha of Devika, the resort of the gods and the Rishis, is five Yojanas in length and half a Yojana in breadth.

on the other side of yonder hill, which covers the space of three Yojanas, is my hermitagea delightful place.

' "Lomasa said, 'O Yudhishthira, the place whence this noise comes and reaches thy ears is at the distance of three hundred thousand yojanas, to be sure.

And he had four fangs, each extending as far as one hundred yojanas, and his other fangs were extended to the distance of ten yojanas, and were of a form resembling towers on a palace, and which might be likened to the ends of spears.

And he had four fangs, each extending as far as one hundred yojanas, and his other fangs were extended to the distance of ten yojanas, and were of a form resembling towers on a palace, and which might be likened to the ends of spears.

And his two arms were like unto hills, and extended ten thousand yojanas, and both were of equal bulk.

This is the altar of the lord of beings, five yojanas in extent on all sides round.

Kailasa is six yojanas in height.

Once the whole earth having been lost and sunk into the nether regions she was lifted up by him in the shape of a boar having a single tusk.' "Yudhishthira said, 'O worshipful one, relate in particular how Vishnu, the lord of the celestials, raised up the earth sunk a hundred yojanas?

Through whose power had she sunk an hundred yojanas below, and under what circumstances was exhibited this greatest exploit of the Supreme Being?

And, O my son, when the increase of population had been so frightful, the Earth oppressed with the excessive burden, sank down for a hundred yojanas.

O hero, then holding the earth with his single radiant tusk that being who pervadeth the Vedas, raised her up a hundred yojanas.

O lord of the celestials, even the oceans are found to be agitated and this whole earth hath gone down a hundred yojanas.

That Supreme soul, Vishnu hath lifted up the Earth, who had entirely sunk down hundred yojanas.