俱舍論頌疏論本 11.16

11.16

釋曰：前三行半明大洲，後兩句明中洲。論云：「於外海中大洲有四，謂於四面對妙高山。南贍部洲，北廣南狹，三邊量等，其相如車，南邊唯廣三踰繕那半，三邊各有二千踰繕那（解云：此言車者，是西國車，彼國車形前狹後闊，如人面也）。」又論云：「唯此洲中有金剛座，上窮地際，下據金輪，一切菩薩將登正覺，皆坐此座上，起金剛喻定，以無餘依及餘處所有堅固力能持此故（解云：以無餘依者，除菩薩身外，更無餘依身起此定也。無餘處者，除金剛座外，無餘處所也。此定力大，餘依餘處無堅固力可能持故）。東勝身洲，東狹西廣，三邊量等，形如半月，東三百五十，三邊各二千。西牛貨洲，圓如滿月，經二千五百，周圍七千半。北俱盧洲，形如方座，四邊量等，面各二千。等言為明無少增減。隨其洲相，人面亦然。」

The explanation says: The first three lines and a half clarify the great continents, and the last two lines clarify the intermediate continents. The treatise says: "In the outer ocean there are four great continents, situated on the four sides facing Mount Sumeru. The southern continent, Jambūdvīpa, is wide in the north and narrow in the south, with three sides of equal measurement, and its shape is like a cart. The southern side is only three and a half yojanas wide, and the other three sides are each two thousand yojanas. (The explanation says: When it says 'cart', it refers to a cart of the Western Regions; in that land the cart shape is narrow in front and broad behind, like a human face.)" The treatise also says: "Only in this continent is there a vajrāsana, which reaches up to the surface of the earth and rests below on the gold-mandala. When all bodhisattvas are about to attain perfect awakening, they all sit on this seat and produce the vajropamasamādhi, because no other support and no other place possesses the steadfast power capable of sustaining it. (The explanation says: 'Because no other support' means that other than the body of a bodhisattva, there is no other physical support that can produce this samādhi. 'No other place' means that other than the vajrāsana, there is no other location. The power of this samādhi is great, and no other support or place has the steadfast power capable of sustaining it.) The eastern continent, Pūrvavideha, is narrow in the east and wide in the west, with three sides of equal measurement, shaped like a half-moon: the east is three hundred and fifty, and three sides are each two thousand. The western continent, Aparagodānīya, is round like the full moon, two thousand five hundred across, and its circumference is seven thousand and a half. The northern continent, Uttarakuru, is shaped like a square seat, with four sides of equal measurement, each side being two thousand. The word 'equal' is meant to clarify that there is neither slight increase nor decrease. In accordance with the shapes of their continents, the faces of the people are also like this."