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COSMOGRAPHY
$102. The "cosmic system"-by which name we intend to comprise both the general plan of the cosmos and the organization as well as the activities of its occupants-is, in contrast to renunciation and world conquest (see Chapters VI and VII), a given fact just as is the "world course" (see Chapter IV). The great amount of details ask for an individual treatment of the subject which, however, as to the cosmographic plan will be restricted to the more important items (of which there will be still enough after all), since, on the one hand, we have more or less comprehensive descriptions at our disposal already,' and since, on the other, vagaries not based on ethical grounds and hence being empty are not attractive to dwell upon In order not to overcharge our text we, therefore, frequently disregarded to deliver detailed proofs, all the more since the passages in question can easily be traced from chapter III The main sources are Pannav. 1. 2; Jīvābh. III with the Divas; Jambudd and the cosmosgraphic sections of Thana and Samavāya.
§103. There is (Than. 1 b; Samav. 1 b) but one world (loga) and beside it but one non-world (aloga). The latter surrounds the world on all sides like a hollow sphere (Viy. 522a) and is out of reach, since beyond the boundaries of the world the medium of motion is absent (Viy. 717 b). The extension of both is illustrated (Viy. 525 b) by describing the speed of divine personalities and the distance they are able
I The cosmographic plan has been described in all general representations, of the system, first of all in those by Mrs. STEVENSON, v. GLASENAPP, GUERINOT (8 46) KIRFEL in his Kosmographie der Inder (Bonn 1920), PP 208-339-reviewed by the AUTHOR ZDMG 75, 254-275-and in the Bilderatlas zur Religionsgeschichte (Lpf 1928), No 12a (ll) deeply goes into details Comp also PULLE in La cartografia antica dell' India. P. I (SIF II 4, 1900), BARNETT, Antag PP 137-141. and, finally BASTIAN, Ideale Welten, vol 3 (Bln. 1892), A. C Sen IHQ, 8, 43-48,
| SR No. | 011097 |
| Book Title | Doctrine of Jainas |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen |
| Publisher | Motilal Banarasidas |
| Publication Year | 1978 |
| Total Pages | 309 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 17 MB |