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Paper presented at the International Seminar on Jaina Mathematics and Cosmology, held under the joint auspices of the Digambar Jain Institute of Cosmographic Research and Meerat University, held at Hastinapur in April 1985 and published in the Tulasi Prajña, Vol.III, 1985. (i) Vide the Tiloya-pannatti I, Solapur, 1943, Ch.1-55-90. (ii) Simhasūri, the author of the Lokavibhāga, Solapur 1962, that he has presented such inherited knowledge in translation
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For Further details, vide the introductory part of Ch.V, The Doctrine of the Jainas, by Walther Schubring, Delhi, 1962. Vide Kirfel's Die Kosmographic der Inder, Bonn U.Leipzig, 1920, part III, introductory passage.
At times the same tradition faces different opinions on certain cosmographic details, for example, the number of kalpas, 16 or 12. Yativrsabha records such matters by saying kei paruvanti, some Acaryas describe so and so.
Vide Further contribution to the History of Jaina Cosmography, in Ludwig Alsdorf Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden, 1974, pp. 136- 159, particularly p.155.
(i) Op. Cit, Ch. V, p.225.
(ii) This is also true of the thinkers in other religious communities of India.
(iii) Therefore the outlinear plan and structure of the world given by different schools of ancient India is more or less the same.
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