Visuddhimagga XIII-48

Candimasūriyānaṃ pana pātubhūtadivaseyeva sinerucakkavāḷahimavantapabbatā pātubhavanti.

当日月出现之日，亦即出现了须弥山、轮围山及雪山，

Ñ(XIII,48): On the day the moon and sun appear, the mountains of Sineru, of the World-sphere and of Himalaya appear too.

Te ca kho apubbaṃ acarimaṃ phagguṇapuṇṇamadivaseyeva pātubhavanti.

它们是在孟春月的月圆日同时出现的。

Ñ: And they appear on the full-moon day of the month of Phagguna (March), neither before nor after.

Kathaṃ?

怎样的呢？

Ñ: How?

Yathā nāma kaṅgubhatte paccamāne ekappahāreneva pupphuḷakāni uṭṭhahanti.

譬如煮稷饭时，一时起了种种的泡，

Ñ: Just as, when millet is cooking and bubbles arise, then simultaneously,

Eke padesā thūpathūpā honti, eke ninnaninnā, eke samasamā.

有的高，有的低，有的平，

Ñ: some parts are domes, some hollow, and some flat,

Evamevaṃ thūpathūpaṭṭhāne pabbatā honti,

（而此大地的）高处为山，

Ñ: so too, there are mountains in the domed places,

ninnaninnaṭṭhāne samuddā,

低处为海，

Ñ: seas in the hollow places,

samasamaṭṭhāne dīpāti.

平坦之处则为洲。

Ñ: and continents (islands) in the flat places.