Viyahapannatti 10.6.490

10.6.490

kahi ṇaṃ bhaṃte! sakkassa deviṃdassa devaranno sabhā suhammā pannattā?
goyamā! jaṃbuddīve dīve maṃdarassa pavvayassa dāhiṇe ṇaṃ imīse rayaṇappabhāe puḍhavīe bahusamaramaṇijjāto bhūmibhāgāto uḍḍhaṃ evaṃ jahā rāyappaseṇaijje jāva paṃca vaḍeṃsagā pannattā, taṃ jahā–asogavaḍeṃsae, sattavaṇṇavaḍeṃsae, caṃpagavaḍeṃsae, cūyavaḍeṃsae majjhe, sohammavaḍeṃsae| se ṇaṃ sohamma-vaḍeṃsae mahāvimāne addhaterasajoyaṇasayasahassāiṃ āyāmavikkhaṃbheṇaṃ,

“Where, Venerable Sir, is the Sudharmā assembly-hall of Śakra, the king of gods, sovereign of the deities, declared to be?”
“Gautama! In the continent of Jambūdvīpa, south of Mount Mandara, above the level and delightful surface of this very Ratnaprabhā earth—just as described in the Rāyapaseṇaijja up to—five crested crest-jewel abodes are declared, namely: the Aśokāvataṃsaka, the Saptaparṇāvataṃsaka, the Campakāvataṃsaka, the Cūtāvataṃsaka, and in the middle, the Saudharmāvataṃsaka. That great celestial abode, the Saudharmāvataṃsaka, is twelve and a half hundred thousand yojanas in length and breadth;