Fifty yojanasnorthwest from the monastery there is another, called "The Great Heap.
Four yojanas to the east from this, the travellers came to the Charcoal tope, where there is also a monastery.
Those fishes were each ten Yojanas in length and one in breadth.
He was full five hundredYojanas in height, O chastiser of foes, and three hundred Yojanas in circumference.
The sense, of course, is that such is the efficacy of these tirthas that a man becomes cleansed by approaching even to a spot within a hundred yojanas of their several sites.
Each of them, O Bharata, was a hundred yojanas in height and of the same measure in breadth.
If this meaning be accepted then no man who lives within a hundred yojanasof any of them has any chance of being cleansed.
At the distance of about three Yojanas from this place, there is a mighty king of the Rakshasas.
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.
Conceive a lake that is one Yojana in width, one Krosa in depth, and five hundred Yojanas in length.
They seem to think that a person by setting out for any of the sacred waters from a distance of a hundred yojanas becomes cleansed.
Compare the account of Buddha's great stride of fifteen yojanas in Ceylon, as related in chapter xxxviii.
Four yojanas on from this place to the east brought the travellers to the confluence of the five rivers.
Fifty yojanas north-west from the monastery there is another, called "The Great Heap.
The handsome mace hurled by Jarasandha fell near Mathura at a distance of ninety-nine yojanas from Gririvraja.
Capable of going everywhere at will, this celestial assembly house is full one hundred and fifty yojanas in length, and hundred yojanas in breadth, and five yojanas in height.
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.
Two laksha of Yojanas over Budha is Mangala or Mars.
The brothers jumped down eleven Yojanas and made their way to Dvaraka.
They are two thousand Yojanasin height and in width.
Garuda, the lord of birds, then flew away for hundreds of thousand of yojanas within--the shortest time.
And the height of the tortoise also is three yojanas and his circumference ten.
And the elephant is six yojanas in height and twice that measure in circumference.
There I dwelt for a full thousand years, and then I attained to a very high region the abode of Indra, of extraordinary beauty having a thousand gates, and extending over a hundred yojanas all round.
And he saw that it was without water and without human beings and lay extended for many Yojanas around.
Three yojanas from here there is a country named Kampilya, and in it is a mountain named Uttara, and on it there is a hermitage.
Karabha, three yojanas distant from this place, there is a Brahman of the name of Devarakshita.
It was a hundred yojanas wide, and had a pavement of gold and jewels, and was adorned with jewelled pillars, and full of curiously wrought jewelled vessels.
Then the king mounted again, and the horse set out by a road bordered with clear cool lakes, that took away the fatigue of the journey; and by evening the splendid horse had taken the king another hundred yojanas and brought him near Ujjayini.
And I slipped out by another door with Madiravati, who wore a necklace of priceless jewels, and went three yojanas in the night.
So go on further; at a distance of fiveyojanas from this place there is a mighty Pasupata ascetic named Bhutisiva, dwelling in a temple of Siva in a forest.
Then the cunning but stupid Agnisikha said to him--"Only twoyojanas from this place, in a southerly direction, there is an empty temple of Siva in a wood.
Why the chariot has in this moment left it manyyojanas behind.
The sacrificial altar of Gaya was thirty Yojanas in length, six and twenty Yojanas in width, and twenty Yojanas in height.
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.
There I beheld a palatial mansion which extended for thousands of Yojanasand emitted a golden splendour from every part.
Of terrible mien, his fangs were two hundred yojanas in length.
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.
And although the tank was two yojanas in length and one yojana in width, even there, O lotus-eyed son of Kunti and ruler of men, was no room for the fish to play about!
And it extends manyyojanas in length and breadth and in that desert dwells a chief of the Danavas called Dhundhu by name.
And when none dared to cross it, I, having recourse to my father, crossed the great ocean which is a hundred Yojanas in width.
O king the mountain Kailasa is six yojanas in height.
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.
Through whose power had she sunk an hundred yojanas below, and under what circumstances was exhibited this greatest exploit of the Supreme Being?
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.
This is the altar of the lord of beings, five yojanas in extent on all sides round.
Except thee, O lord of earth, there is no one in this world, who in one day can clear, O King, a hundred yojanas with horses.
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.
A great city, twelve yojanas in extent, the houses of which stood in triple and long-extended rows.
This her subtle wile she plotted--only for thy absent sake, For beside thyself no mortal--might a hundred Yojanas drive.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yojanas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
