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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
§ § 166-167) Nirayávaliyão
124 Paradise incarnate, pleasant to look at, worthy of being seen, beautiful and excellent.
166. Now, in the forth-easternly direction outside that city of Barávaî there was a mountain named Revaa (modern Girnar ) which was lofty; whose pinnacles reached, as it were, the surface of the heaven; which was pleasant on account of being covered over with different kinds of trees, groves, thickets, creepers and plants; which was full of the groups of swans, deer, peacocks, Koncha birds, Sårasa birds, crows, Mayanagãla birds and cuckoos; which was full of plenty of banks, slopes, holes, prosprous sprouts, and peaks; which was crowded with bands. of damsels, groups of gods and couples of demi-gods; which was always festive; and which was delightful, pleasant, of a happy sight, beautiful and excellent even to the Dasāra Kshatriyas who are excellent heroic persons strongest in the three worlds.
167. Not very far, nor very distant from that mountain Revaa there was a park named Nandanavana which yielded fruits of all the seasons ( and so forth, down to ) pleasant to look at.
168. In that park Nandanavana there was an abode of the Yaksha Surappiya which
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