Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.798

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3. Mahāhimavaṃta A mountain situated in Jambuddīva. It lies to the south of Harivāsa(1) and to the north of Hemavaya(1), to the west of the eastern Lavaṇa ocean and to the east of the western Lavaṇa ocean. It is two hundred yojanas high, fifty yojanas deep, 4210 1/19 yojanas broad and 9276 1/19 yojanas long. Its jīyā (chord) in the north measures somewhat more than 53931 1/19 yojanas and its dhanuprṣṭha (arc) in the south measures 57293 1/19 yojanas.¹ The distance between the highest point of the mountain and the lowest point of the Sogaṃdhiya kāṇḍa measures eighty two hundred
1. Jam. 79, Sam, 53, 57, 102, Sth. 197, 522.