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and half of the last continent next to the ocean have got only Karma-Bhumi. The rest of the oceans and continents have only Bhoga-Bhumi,
The Middle Universe is the abode of three groups of celestial beings i. e. 1. Bhavanapati af Residentials 2. Vyantara surat Peripatetics and 3. Jyotisk Stellars, as also of the human and sub-human beings. Human and sub-human beings both of Karma-Bhumi and Bhoga-Bhumi type are found in the first two oceans and the first two and a half continents i. e. up te the Manusottara. No human beings of any kind are found anywhere else in the Universe.
One-sensed beings are found in the whole universe, 2 to 4-sensed and 5-sensed irrational beings are found only in the first two oceans, first 2 continents, last continent and the last ocean.
Five-sensed rational human beings are found only in the first 2 continents and the first two oceans. Five-sensed rational sub-human beings-lower animals of the Bhoga-Bhumi type. are found everywhere except the last half continent and the last
ocean.
Beyond Manusottara and the Svayamprabha, there are only 5-sensed animals with mind only of the Bhoga-Bumi type. In the last continent and the last ocean, there are all kinds of animals of the Karma-Bhumi type.
Our earth is an immense circular body consistiug of a number of concentric rings called Dvipas -Islands, separated from each other-by ring-shaped oceans. In the centre, stands Mount Mèru. Around this, at its foot, runs the first continent Jambu-dvipa . This is surrounded by the Lavana-samudra, or the Salt Sea. Then come the other continents each followed by a sea-ring. The names of the first eight continents beginning from Jambu-dvipa out-wards are
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Jambu-dvipa
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-The Jambu Island.
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