俱舍論頌疏論本 11.6

11.6

The explanation says: The first line states it in general, while the remaining lines explain it in detail. A lakṣa is here translated as a hundred thousand. The treatise says: "It is accepted that this trichiliocosm is thus established with diverse shapes and measurements. That is to say, through the predominant power of the karma of sentient beings, first, at the very bottom, supported by space, a wind-mandala is produced. Its measurement is countless in breadth and sixteen hundred thousand yojanas in thickness. Such a wind-mandala is solid and dense in substance; even if a great nagnata (here translated as a naked spirit) were to wield his power and strike it from aloft with a vajra wheel, the vajra would shatter, but the wind-mandala would suffer no harm. Furthermore, through the predominant power of the karma of sentient beings, great rain-clouds arise and pour onto the wind-mandala, the drops like chariot axles, accumulating water to form a mandala. Before it congeals, it is eleven hundred thousand and twenty thousand yojanas deep. Question: 'Why does the water-mandala not disperse by flowing sideways?' Answer: 'Other masters say: It is held by the karmic power of all sentient beings, causing it not to flow and disperse, just as food and drink that has not yet digested and transformed never shifts and falls into the intestine. Other masters say: It is held by the power of the wind, causing it not to disperse, just as a granary holds grain.' Induced by the karmic power of sentient beings, a distinct wind arises, churning and beating this water, so that the upper part congeals into gold. Just as when boiled milk stands, a film congeals on top, so the water-mandala decreases, remaining only eight lakṣas thick, while the rest turns into a gold-mandala three hundred thousand and twenty thousand [yojanas] thick. The breadth and measurement of the two mandalas are the same, that is, twelve hundred thousand three thousand four hundred and a half in diameter, and the measurement of their circumference is threefold, that is, the measurement of the circumference is thirty-six hundred thousand ten thousand three hundred and fifty yojanas."