[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c18.176 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c18.176 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c18.176 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c18.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.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. - [Previous: v1.c18.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.175) - [Next: v1.c18.177](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.177) - [Up: v1.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c18.176) · Pramāṇa