Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
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

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS Hemavaya we have Cullahımavanta (Himavan), between Hemavaya and Harivāsa Mahāhimavanta, between Harivāsa and Mahāvideha Nisadha; in the north between Eravaya and Hirannavaya. Siharı, between Hirannavaya and Rammaga: Ruppi, and between Rammaga and Mahāvideha. Nīlavanta.
As to the ratio of size of these continents and world mountains, it is of a kind that towards the centre each of the succeeding is twice as wide as the preceding. The width (vikkhambha) of Bharaha and Eravaya measures 526 is goy.--1 . two quite narrow segments, that of Cullahimavanta and Siharı 1,052 if joy, etc. By taking Bharaha as 1 we may imagine the Jambuddīva as consisting of 190 units (khanda). From the width there follows the length of the chords (jivā) representing the boundaries of the continents and world mountains, of the pertinent arcs (dhanupattha), and of the arc sections between the chords (bāhā). The northern edge of the Cullahımayanta, for instance, is a little longer than 24,932 de joy., and the arc above it embracing both the mountains themselves and Bharaha measures 25, 230 i joy.
$114. The world mountains-JACOBI calls them by the appropriate term of “banks" (on T. 3, 11)-have 100, 200 and 400 joy. in height measured in pairs towards Mahāvideha, and they show 11, 8 and 9 summits (küda) 1 These summits rising to an individual height of 500 joy. sit upon the mountains. In the centre of these mountains we find the longish lakes (maha-ddaha) from which the large rivers spring (Thān. 72b). From those of the Cullahimavanta and Sihari there flow three each, ie into Bharaha eastward the Gangā, westward the Sindhu, northward into Hemavaya the Rohiyamsā; into Eravaya eastward the Rattā, westward the Rattāvai, southward into Hirannavaya the Suvannakūlā From the remaining lakes spring two rivers each to flow southward and northward Thus from the Mahāhimavanta there come the Rohiya in Hırannavaya and the Harikantā in Harivāsa from the Nisaha ibd. the Hari and the Sãoyā in Mahāvideha. They
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