Chinese
是也。东方的，身胜人等自身量八肘。寿命二百五十岁能活。为何身胜呢？比赡部洲的人身体大的缘故。西方的，牛施人身量十六肘。寿命五百，声不悦耳一千。身量三十二肘是决定的。享用如意牛的缘故，名为牛施洲。人等自身量十六肘，能活五百岁。北方的声不悦耳者，自身量三十二肘，寿命决定能活一千岁，中间无有非时而死者。临死之时，名为“某某”，现在七日内将作寿命终结之时，名为声响在虚空中响亮，故名声不悦耳。或者说，以毗舍遮的语言说话，声音不悦耳的缘故，所以这样说。之后树木干枯，七日内倒下。那人也必定转生到三十三天。如是四大洲的差别中，我们这个洲的形状像簸箕，人的面貌等也大多与之相似，天空显现蓝色。东方的洲如半月形，呈黄色，人的形状也与之相似，天空显现白色。北洲是四方形，人的形状也与之相似，天空也显现黄色。西方的洲是圆形，像太阳的轮廓，人的形状也是圆形，天空显现红色。如是四大洲中，特别是赡部洲众生形成的方式是：从光明天降下来的福德微小者。来到此洲之后，又一个也同样出现。月亮是名称，之后繁衍众多。在赡部洲，以前第一个劫的时候，大地成为一体。在没有众生的时候，从光明的神中，福德微小者如水滴般降落之后，很久之后。又一个神出现，之前的那个非常高兴，所以称呼为月亮。之后就像那样繁衍众多。他们也无需勤作，仅仅凭借意念。于虚空中行走，具有光明，享用喜乐的食物。寿命无量，烦恼不现前。那时称为第一个劫。色界的
English
It is so. In the East, the bodies of the superior beings are eight cubits tall. Their lifespan is two hundred and fifty years. Why are they called "superior bodies"? Because their bodies are larger than those of Jambudvipa. In the West, the people of Godhaniya are sixteen cubits tall. Their lifespan is five hundred years, and they have a thousand unpleasant sounds. Their body size is definitely thirty-two cubits. Because they use the wish-fulfilling cows, the continent is called Godhaniya. The people there are sixteen cubits tall and can live for five hundred years. In the North, in Uttarakuru, people are thirty-two cubits tall. They definitely live for a thousand years, and there is no untimely death in between. At the time of death, a sound called "So-and-so" will resonate in the sky, announcing that the end of life will come in seven days, hence the name "unpleasant sound." Or, because they speak in the language of the Bhishachas, their voices are unpleasant, hence the name. Then the trees dry up and fall within seven days. That person will definitely be reborn in the Thirty-three Heavens. Thus, among the four continents, the shape of our continent is like a winnowing basket, and the faces of the people are mostly similar to it, and the sky appears blue. The eastern continent is like a half-moon, yellowish in color, and the shape of the people is also similar to it, and the sky appears white. The northern continent is square, and the shape of the people is also similar to it, and the sky also appears yellow. The western continent is round, like the disc of the sun, and the shape of the people is also round, and the sky appears red. Thus, among the four continents, the way sentient beings are formed in Jambudvipa is particularly special: a small amount of merit descends from the gods of clear light. After coming to this continent, another one appears in the same way. "Moon" is the name, and then many proliferate. In Jambudvipa, in the first kalpa, the earth became one. When there were no beings, a small amount of merit from the gods of clear light descended like a drop, and after a long time. Another god appeared, and the previous one was very happy, so he called him "Moon." Then many proliferated in the same way. They also did not need to work hard, but only by thought. They walked in the sky, possessed light, and enjoyed joyful food. Their lifespan was immeasurable, and afflictions did not manifest. That time was called the first kalpa. The form realm's
Chinese
如同天神一般，形貌端正，令人喜愛，感官和肢體都完備。美麗，顏色鮮明且帶有光芒。能在空中行走，在空中停留。僅僅是意念，就能到達想去的地方。以喜樂為食，沒有煩惱顯現。壽命無量，僅僅享受安樂。這被稱為最初劫。那時，在贍部洲，沒有村莊，地面平坦美麗。沒有日月，沒有男人和女人。 「所有人都被稱為化生有情。因為沒有房屋、住所、村莊和城市，所以地面平坦。」日月星辰的次序所區分的時節，年、月、日夜、剎那、瞬間， 「須臾」「次第」༼༤༽沒有區分。因為感官的門戶沒有開啟，所以沒有男人和女人這樣的區別。對於那些眾生來說，彼此之間普遍存在著「有情有情」這樣的稱謂。那時，因為天神和功德大致相同，所以也沒有區分天神和人的名稱。 從那時起，被稱為「人」的時期是：從那之後很久，從虛空中， 「不顯現」被稱呼，從此以後被稱為「人」。最初劫的那個時期經過了很久之後，所有那些眾生都聽到從虛空中傳來「不顯現」的巨大聲音七次。因此，那些眾生被稱為「我們是人」。當那個聲音響起時，從那時起，壽命和光芒減少，福德減少。 「雖然沒有煩惱顯現，但接近爆發。」「這個時候四大部洲的人們蔓延開來。」那時，比以前༼༢༽賢劫衰敗的時期開始，因此福德減少。光芒也減弱，雖然沒有煩惱顯現，但潛伏的煩惱爆發，也接近顯現。然而，身體透明，具備端正的感官和肢體。男女的感官門戶沒有開啟。在這個時候，其他部洲的人們也蔓延開來。這個部洲的定義是：贍部洲廣為人知，從金剛座（菩提伽耶）向北是黑山，九個山谷之外是雪山的北方，有香味。這兩者之間是無熱惱大湖。
English
Like the gods, with a good appearance and pleasing to behold, complete with senses and limbs. Beautiful, with clear color and light. Able to travel in the sky and dwell in the sky. Able to go wherever desired with just a thought. Enjoying happiness and pleasure as food, without manifest afflictions. Able to live for immeasurable years and enjoying only happiness. This is called the first kalpa. At that time, in Jambudvipa (the continent of Jambu), there were no villages, and the ground was level and beautiful. There were no sun and moon, and no men and women. "All were known as spontaneously born sentient beings. Because there were no houses, dwellings, villages, and cities, the ground became level." The seasons divided by the order of the sun, moon, and stars, years, months, days and nights, moments, instants, "A short while""Sequence"༼4༽There was no distinction. Because the doors of the senses were not open, there was no distinction between men and women. For those beings, the name "sentient being, sentient being" was generally established among themselves. At that time, because the gods and virtues were mostly the same, there was also no distinction between the names of gods and humans. From that time on, the time when they were called "humans" was: After a long time, from the sky, "Invisible" was called, and from then on they were called "humans." After that first kalpa had passed for a long time, all those beings heard a great sound of "Invisible" resounding seven times from the sky. Therefore, those beings were called "We are humans." When that sound resounded, from that time on, lifespan and light decreased, and merit decreased. "Although there are no manifest afflictions, they are close to arising." "At this time, people spread to the four continents." At that time, more than before ༼2༽The time when the good kalpa declined began, so merit decreased. The light also diminished, and although there were no manifest afflictions, latent afflictions arose and were close to manifesting. However, the body was transparent and possessed beautiful senses and limbs. The doors of the male and female senses were not open. At this time, people from other continents also spread. The definition of this continent is: Jambudvipa is widely known, from Vajrasana (Bodh Gaya) to the north is the Black Mountain, beyond nine valleys is the north of the Snow Mountain, which is fragrant. Between these two is the great Anavatapta Lake.
Chinese
གྲུ་བཞི་ཆུ་ཞེང་དཔག་ཚད་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ། །ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ལྡན་ཆུ་ཡིས་གང་བའོ། །འཛམ་བུ་ཏྲི་ཤ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཤིང་གིས་ཉེ་བར་བརྒྱན་པས་འཛམ་བུ་ཡིན་ལ། གླིང་ཞེས་པ་ནི། མཐའ་ཁོ་ར་ཁོར་ཡུག་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཆུ་བོ་བདལ་བས་ཁྱབ་པའི་དབུས་སམ་བར་ན་སའི་ཕྱོགས་ཅུང་ཟད་ཆུ་ལ་ཞིབ་མ་བཀྲམ་པ་ལྟ་བུར་གནས་པས་དེ་སྐད་ཅེས་བཏགས་ཏེ། མཚོ་དང་ཆུ་སྲོལ་ཁ་ཅིག་གི་དབུས་དང་མཚམས་ན་ཆུས་ཆོད་པའི་སའི་སྒལ་པ་ལ་གླིང་དུ་བཏགས་པ་བཞིན་ནོ། །འཛམ་བུ་པྲིཀྵ་དེ་ཉིད་གང་ན་ཡོད་ན་གླིང་འདིའི་དབུས་ན་མ་ག་ངྷཱ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གདན་ཡོད་ལ། དེའི་བྱང་ན་རི་ནག་པོ་གསུམ་དང༌། ཡང་གསུམ་དང༌། ཡང་གསུམ་གཞལ་བ་ན་གངས་རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཏི་སེའོ། །དེའི་བྱང་ན་རི་བོ་སྤོས་ཀྱི་ངད་ལྡང་བ་ཡོད་དོ། །གངས་རིའི་བྱང༌། སྤོས་ངད་ལྡན་གྱི་ལྷོ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་བར་ན་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་མ་དྲོས་པ་ཡོད་དེ། ཀུན་ནས་གྲུ་བཞི་པ་ཆུ་དང༌། ཞེང་དུ་དཔག་ཚད་ལྔ་བཅུའི་ནང་ཆུ་བསིལ་བས་གང་བར་གནས་པས་མ་དྲོས་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །དེའི་ནང་ན་ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མ་དྲོས་པ་གནས་པ། མཚོ་དེ་ཡང་དབྱིབས་ལེགས་ཤིང་༼༡༽བལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པ། ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཆུས་གང་བའོ། །ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ནི། འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ལས། གཙང་དང་འཇམ་དང་དག་པ་དང༌། །དྭངས་དང་བསིལ་དང་རྙོག་པ་མེད། །འཐུངས་ན་ལྟོ་ལ་མི་གནོད་དང༌། ། མགྲིན་པ་ལ་ཡང་བྱམས་པ་སྟེ། །འདི་དག་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ལྡན་ཆུ། །ཞེས་པ་ལྟར། འཇུག་ངོགས་དང་རྒྱུན་ལ་དྲི་ང་བ་ལ་སོགས་པ་མི་གཙང་བ་མེད་པས་ཡིད་དུ་འཐད་པའི་ཕྱིར་གཙང་བ་དང༌། བསིལ་དྲོད་སྙོམས་ཤིང་སྤྱད་པ་དག་གིས་ཁམས་བཟང་བར་བྱེད་པས་འཇམ་པ་དང༌། སྲོག་ཆགས་ཕྲ་མོ་དང་རགས་པ་ཆུ་བཙོག་པར་བྱེད་པ་མེད་པས་དག་པ་དང༌། ཁ་གཏིང་མེད་པར་རབ་ཏུ་གསལ་བས་དྭངས་པ་དང༌། ཚ་བའི་རེག་པ་དང་གདུང་བ་སེལ་བས་བསིལ་བ་དང༌། དྲི་མས་རྙོག་པ་ལྟ་བུ་མེད་པས་རྙོག་པ་མེད་པ་དང༌། འཐུངས་པའི་ཚེ་ཞིམ་ལ་མགྲིན་པར་འབད་རྩོལ་མེད་པར་ཁོང་དུ་འཇུག་པས་བདེ་བ་དང༌། ཁོང་བར་སོང་ན་ཕོ་བ་སྦོས་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ། ཆུ་སྔ་མ་དང་འཐབས་པའི་ནད་མི་སྐྱེད་པར་རྟག་ཏུ་བདེ་བ་སྐྱེད་པས་ལྟོ་བ་ལ་མི་གནོད་པ། བརྒྱད་ནི་མིའི་ཆུ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ལྡན་ནོ། །ལྷའི་ཆུ་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་ལྡན་ནི། དེ་ཉིད་ལས། དྭངས་དང་བསིལ་དང་ཡང་དང་ཞིམ། །འཇམ་དང་དྲོ་དང་གསལ་དང་བདེ། །འདི་དག་དྲི་མེད་ལྷ་ཡི་ ཆུ། །ཡིད་འོང་ཡན་ལག་བརྒྱད་དུ་འདོད། །ཅེས་པས་ཁ་གཏིང་མེད་པར་གསལ་ལ་རྙོག་པ་མེད་པས་ད 四方形水面宽广五十由旬，充满八功德水。以名为赡部底沙之树庄严，故名赡部。洲者，周边环绕广大之大海，其中心或中间，地表略微未被水浸透，如是安住，故名洲。如某些湖泊与水流的中央与交界处，以水隔断之地脊称为洲。赡部底沙树在何处呢？此洲的中央有摩揭陀金刚座。其北方有三座黑山，又三座，又三座，衡量之，乃雪山之王冈底斯山。其北方有散发香气之山。雪山之北，香气散发之南二者之间，有大湖玛那萨罗瓦，四面皆方正，充满水，宽五十由旬之内，充满凉水，故名玛那萨罗瓦。其中住着龙王玛那萨罗瓦。此湖形状优美，令人赏心悦目，充满八功德水。八功德者，如《律藏》所云：“清净与柔软，清澈且凉爽，无浊且适宜，饮用不伤身，亦悦于喉咙，此乃八功德水。”如是，入口与水流无腥臭等不净之物，故令人满意而清净。凉热适中，且所用之物使身体康健，故柔软。无微小与粗大之生物污染水，故清澈。无表里，极其清澈，故清净。消除热触与痛苦，故凉爽。无如污垢般的浑浊，故无浊。饮用时，美味且喉咙不费力，入腹舒适。入腹后，不引起腹胀等，不与先前之水冲突而生病，恒常带来安乐，故不伤身。此八者乃人之八功德水。天之八功德水者，如彼经所云：“清澈与凉爽，轻盈且美味，柔软且温暖，清净且舒适，此乃无垢天之水，视为悦意八功德。”如是，无表里，清澈无浊，故
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A square body of water, fifty yojanas wide, filled with water possessing eight qualities. It is called Jambudvipa because it is adorned with a tree called Jambutriksa. The term "dvipa" (island or continent) refers to the central or intermediate part where the land is slightly less saturated with water, surrounded by the vast ocean. It is named as such because it remains like that. Similar to how the ridge of land separated by water in the middle or at the boundary of some lakes and watercourses is called an island. Where is that Jambutriksa? In the center of this continent is Magadha Vajrasana. To its north are three black mountains, then three more, and then three more. Measuring them, it is Mount Kailash, the king of snow mountains. To its north is a mountain that exudes the fragrance of incense. Between the north of the snow mountain and the south of the incense-exuding mountain, there is the great Lake Manasarovar. It is square on all sides and filled with water. Within its fifty yojanas of width, it is filled with cool water, hence it is called Manasarovar (Anavatapta). Within it resides the Dragon King Anavatapta. That lake is well-shaped like and beautiful to behold, filled with water possessing eight qualities. The eight qualities are as stated in the Vinaya Sutra: "Clean and smooth and pure, clear and cool and without turbidity, if drunk, it does not harm the stomach, and is also kind to the throat. These are the waters with eight qualities." As such, the entrance and flow are free from foul odors and other impurities, hence it is clean and pleasing. It is moderately cool and warm, and the things used make the body healthy, hence it is smooth. There are no small or large creatures that pollute the water, hence it is pure. It is extremely clear without surface or bottom, hence it is clear. It relieves the touch of heat and suffering, hence it is cool. It is without turbidity like dirt, hence it is without turbidity. When drunk, it is delicious and enters the stomach without effort to the throat, hence it is comfortable. Once inside, it does not cause bloating or other illnesses that conflict with the previous water, and it always brings happiness, hence it does not harm the stomach. These eight are the eight qualities of human water. The eight qualities of divine water are as stated in the same text: "Clear and cool and light and delicious, smooth and warm and bright and comfortable, these are the waters of the immaculate gods, considered as pleasing eight qualities." As such, it is clear without surface or bottom and without turbidity, hence