________________
SAYA V
Campa ravil anila- ganthiyasadde4 chaum's āue eyana? niyanthes Rāyagihamo Campā candimālo ya dasa pancamammi sae.
Campa for Campā and chaum[a] for chaumattha metri causa.-On Saya V see the AUTHOR, Over een Fragment van de Viyāhapannatti in Orientalia Gandensia II (Leiden 1965), pp. 145-187.
1. Ravi.
1 (206b) In the sanctuary Puņnabhadda near Campā Goy. questions Mv.-In Jambuddiva the course of the [two] suns (sūriya : ravi) keeps to the right: N.E., S.E., S.W., N.W., N.E. Cf. KIRFEL, Kosmographie p. 285 seq.-Campā: mod. Champanagar OMI 72 K/16/7 (T.I., p. 212).
2 (207b) When there is daylight in the N. and the S., it is night in the E. and the W. and vice versa. The duration of the day is inversely proportional to that of the night: (at the summer solstice, one of the possibilities enumerated) the longest day lasts 18 muhūrtas and goes together with the shortest night which lasts 12 muhūrtas; then the night starts lengthening as much as the day is getting shorter (atthārasa-muhuttânantare divase ... sâiregă duvālasa-muhuttā rāi) until both day and night last 15 muhūrtas (autumnal equinox), etc.
3 (209b) The three seasons and their subdivisions (samaya up to uu), the half year (ayana), the year and its multiples (jua up to o- and ussappini) from the point of view of their advent in the different quarters of Jambuddiva: all these subdivisions of time begin simultaneously in the N. and the S., while in the E. and the W. they always start one samaya later.
The divisions of time are slightly different from those enumerated in
105
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
