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## The Five Karmas: Chapter 365
The **Ghanodadhi** is enveloped by **Ghanavat**, and its form resembles thin, melted ghee. Its length, width, and circumference are countless yojanas. This **Ghanavat** is also enveloped by **Tanuvat**. Its length, width, circumference, and middle thickness are countless yojanas. Its form should be understood as resembling heated ghee.
Below the **Tanuvat** lies an expanse of space, countless yojanas in measure. These **Ghanodadhi**, **Ghanavat**, and **Tanuvat** can be understood by analogy as wooden vessels placed one inside the other. In the same way, these three **Vatavalas** are situated within each other. That is, the **Ghanodadhi** is like a small vessel, the **Ghanavat** like a medium vessel, and the **Tanuvat** like a large vessel, followed by space. Just as an object is placed within the smallest vessel, so too is the earth situated within the **Ghanodadhivala**.
The scriptures describe the shape of the **Lok** as **Supratishtha Sansthan**. The form of **Supratishtha Sansthan** is as follows:
If a bowl is placed upside down on the ground, another bowl is placed upright on top of it, and a third bowl is placed upside down on top of that, the shape that is formed is called **Supratishtha Sansthan**, and this is the shape of the **Lok**.
Many Acharyas have explained the shape of the **Lok** through various metaphors. For example, the shape of the **Lok** is like a man dancing with his hand on his waist and his legs spread out. Therefore, the **Lok** is compared to the form of a man. In some places, the shape of the **Lok** is described as being like a mridanga placed on a **Benasan**. Similarly, other objects that are wide at the base, narrow in the middle, wide at the top, and then narrow again, and whose shape is formed by placing them one on top of the other, will form the shape of the **Lok**.