Yojanas - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.69.3635	And he saw that it was without water and without human beings and lay extended for many Yojanas around.
Mbh.2.14.629	Thus, O king, though possessed of strength and energy, yet from the oppressions of Jarasandha we have been obliged to repair to the mountains of Gomanta, measuring three Yojanas in length.
Mbh.3.82.4088	The learned have said that the sacred tirtha of Devika, the resort of the gods and the Rishis, is five Yojanas in length and half a Yojana in breadth.
Mbh.3.111.5760	on the other side of yonder hill, which covers the space of three Yojanas, is my hermitage, a delightful place.
Mbh.3.199.10165	The distance of Yama's region from the abode of men is, O king, eighty-six thousand Yojanas!
Mbh.3.230.11680	And his head massive as a hillock, falling on the ground, barred the entrance to the country of the Northern Kurus, extending in length for sixteen Yojanas though at present the people of that country pass easily by that gate.
Mbh.3.259.12684	And there is that monarch of mountains the golden Meru extending over a space of thirty-three thousand Yojanas.
Mbh.3.270.13186	And assuming the shape of a sacrificial boar shining with effulgence and instinct with the Vedas and ten Yojanas in length, with pointed tusks and a complexion like dark clouds, and with a body huge as a mountain, and roaring like a conglomeration of clouds, the Lord plunged into the waters, and lifted up the Earth with one of his tusks, and replaced it in its proper sphere.
Mbh.3.280.13712	And having beheld it, we entered that cavern which extended over many Yojanas.
Mbh.3.280.13723	Casting our eyes on the great ocean extending over many hundreds of Yojanas and abounding in whales and alligators and other aquatic animals, we became anxious and filled with grief.
Mbh.3.280.13743	And when none dared to cross it, I, having recourse to my father, crossed the great ocean which is a hundred Yojanas in width.
Mbh.3.281.13789	The sea here is a full hundred Yojanas in width.
Mbh.3.281.13817	And it was by this means that the descendant of Kakutstha's race caused a bridge to be built that was ten Yojanas in width and a hundred Yojanas in length.
Mbh.4.10.398	I know the present, the past, and the future of all kine living within ten Yojanas, and whose tale has been taken.
Mbh.5.86.4091	This car of mine drawn by mules that makes a round of full fourteen Yojanas a day, I will also give him.
Mbh.6.1.13	Men of all races assembled together, occupied an area extending for many Yojanas over districts, rivers, hills, and woods.
Mbh.6.6.323	The space lying between each of these measures a thousand Yojanas, and thereon are many delightful kingdoms.
Mbh.6.6.332	It is eighty-four thousand Yojanas high, and, O king, its depth also is eighty-four Yojanas.
Mbh.6.7.433	O bull of Bharata race, a thousand and a hundred Yojanas is the height of that prince of trees, which touches the very heavens, O king of men.
Mbh.6.7.443	On Malyavat's summit towards the east are many small mountains and Malyavat, O king, measures eleven thousand Yojanas.
Mbh.6.11.542	The Jamvu mountain, O king, extends over full eighteen thousand and six hundred Yojanas.
Mbh.6.12.676	Its diameter is twelve thousand Yojanas, and its circumference, because it is very large, is forty-two thousand Yojanas, O sinless one as said by the learned of olden times.
Mbh.6.12.677	The diameter of the moon, O king, is stated to be eleven thousand Yojanas.
Mbh.6.12.678	Its circumference, O chief of the Kurus, is stated to be thirty-eight thousand nine hundred Yojanas of the illustrious planet of cool rays.
Mbh.6.12.679	It hath been heard that the diameter of the beneficent, fast going and light-giving Sun, O thou of Kuru's race, is ten thousand Yojanas, and his circumference, O king, is thirty-five thousand eight hundred miles, in consequence of his largeness, O sinless one.
Mbh.7.60.2729	Having performed a hundred Horse-sacrifices and a hundred Rajasuya sacrifices also, he gave away, O monarch, unto the Brahmanas, some Rohita fish made of gold, that were ten Yojanas in length and one Yojana in breadth.
Mbh.7.64.2804	The sacrificial altar of Gaya was thirty Yojanas in length, six and twenty Yojanas in width, and twenty Yojanas in height.
Mbh.7.109.5169	The distance from here, O king, is three Yojanas.
Mbh.7.109.5171	But though Partha is three Yojanas distant I shall yet follow in his track with a stout heart, and stay with him, O king, till Jayadratha's slaughter.
Mbh.8.41.2170	Doing every hundred Yojanas in a separate and beautiful kind of motion, I shall display all those motions.
Mbh.9.5.367	Having groomed their animals, the Kauravas, delighting at the prospect of battle, took up their quarters for the night at a spot a little less than two Yojanas distant from the field.
Mbh.12.29.1473	Those fishes were each ten Yojanas in length and one in breadth.
Mbh.12.35.1839	By perishing upon the weapon of a person living by the use of arms, of one's own will and upon the advice of persons learned in the scriptures, or by throwing one's self down, for three times, with head downwards, upon a blazing fire, or by walking a hundred Yojanas all the while reciting the Vedas, or by giving away one's whole property to a Brahmana conversant with the Vedas, or at least so much as would secure to him a competence for life, or a house properly furnished, and by protecting kine and Brahmanas, one may be cleansed of the sin of having slain a Brahmana.
Mbh.12.111.6399	The camel said, Let my neck, O holy one, become long through thy grace, so that, O puissant lord, I may be able to seize any food that may lie even at the end of even a hundred Yojanas'
Mbh.12.111.6404	One day, while extending his long neck of a hundred Yojanas, the animal was engaged in picking his food without any labour, a great storm arose.
Mbh.12.151.9035	One guilty of foeticide becomes cleansed at even a hundred Yojanas from Mahasaras, or the tirthas called Pushkara, or Prabhasa, or Manasa on the north, if only one gets out for any of them
Mbh.12.165.9837	Then the divine Brahman, accompanied by the regenerate sages, proceeded to a delightful summit of Himavat, extending for a hundred Yojanas in area, adorned with diverse kinds of jewels and gems, and upon whose surface the stars seemed to rest like so many lotuses on a lake.
Mbh.12.169.10169	At the distance of about three Yojanas from this place, there is a mighty king of the Rakshasas.
Mbh.12.279.17126	Conceive a lake that is one Yojana in width, one Krosa in depth, and five hundred Yojanas in length.
Mbh.12.280.17242	He was full five hundred Yojanas in height, O chastiser of foes, and three hundred Yojanas in circumference.
Mbh.12.327.20812	There is a fiery girdle all around it, of the width of ten Yojanas, and it is incapable of being approached by Yakshas and Rakshasas and Danavas.
Mbh.12.335.21428	The learned say that its distance from the mountains of Meru is greater than two and thirty thousand Yojanas.
Mbh.13.71.6596	There I beheld a palatial mansion which extended for thousands of Yojanas and emitted a golden splendour from every part.
Mbh.14.9.272	And in a rage, he again created a terrible looking enemy of thine, the Asura named Mada assuming all shapes, on beholding whom thou didst shut thine eyes with fear, whose one huge jaw was placed on earth, and the other extended to the celestial regions, and who looked terrible with his thousand sharp teeth extending over a hundred Yojanas, and had four prominent ones thick-set, and shining like a pillar of silver, and extending over two hundred Yojanas.
Mbh.14.58.2666	The regions of the Nagas are thousands of Yojanas removed from this place.
Mbh.14.58.2672	He saw that that region lay extended thousands of Yojanas on all sides.
Mbh.14.58.2676	That perpetuator of Bhrigu's race behold the gate of that region which was full five Yojanas high and a hundred Yojanas in width.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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