Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c18.176

v1.c18.176

Sometimes in Jambudīpa there are as many as eighty-four thousand cities; this number is sometimes reduced to sixty thousand, forty thousand, or even twenty thousand, but never to less.⁵ In the time of Asoka there were eighty-four thousand cities, in each of which he built a monastery.⁶ In the Aṅguttara Nikāya⁷ it is said that, in Jambudīpa, trifling in number are the parks, groves, lakes, etc., more numerous the steep, precipitous places, unfordable rivers, inaccessible mountains, etc.