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... miles high . He can dry up the sea , though in one place it is eight hundred and forty thousand miles deep . He can hide the earth with the tip of his finger , and shake the whole of the Himalayan forest , with all its mountains , with ...
... miles high . He can dry up the sea , though in one place it is eight hundred and forty thousand miles deep . He can hide the earth with the tip of his finger , and shake the whole of the Himalayan forest , with all its mountains , with ...
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... miles in diameter , and 36,103,500 miles in circumference . * Between Maha Méru and the Sakwala ridge there are ... high , and 105,000 broad ; its inner circumference is 11,340,050 miles , and its outer 11,970,000 . The width of the sea ...
... miles in diameter , and 36,103,500 miles in circumference . * Between Maha Méru and the Sakwala ridge there are ... high , and 105,000 broad ; its inner circumference is 11,340,050 miles , and its outer 11,970,000 . The width of the sea ...
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... miles , and near Sudassana 52,500 . The fifth , Nemindara , is 26,250 miles high , and 13,125 broad . Its inner cir- cumference is 14,647,500 miles , and its outer , 14,726,250 . The width of the sea between Sudassana and Némindhara is ...
... miles , and near Sudassana 52,500 . The fifth , Nemindara , is 26,250 miles high , and 13,125 broad . Its inner cir- cumference is 14,647,500 miles , and its outer , 14,726,250 . The width of the sea between Sudassana and Némindhara is ...
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... miles , they are agitated by the wind . In the 40,000 miles that intervene between the two agitations , there is a perfect calm . There are waves 600 miles high , called Mahinda ; others 400 miles high , called Pórána . * The carcases ...
... miles , they are agitated by the wind . In the 40,000 miles that intervene between the two agitations , there is a perfect calm . There are waves 600 miles high , called Mahinda ; others 400 miles high , called Pórána . * The carcases ...
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... miles high ; its rocks hang over , like the bill of a crow ; Chitta is throughout of gold ; Kála is of antimony ; Gandhamádana is of the colour of mung seed , and there grow upon it ten different kinds of fragrant creepers or trees ...
... miles high ; its rocks hang over , like the bill of a crow ; Chitta is throughout of gold ; Kála is of antimony ; Gandhamádana is of the colour of mung seed , and there grow upon it ten different kinds of fragrant creepers or trees ...
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