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Jambu-dvipa
A JAINA VIEW OF COSMOS
-a Comparative Study
(from the previous issue )
KASTUR CHAND LALWANI
13. The geography of Jambu-dvipa (Jambuddiva)
Jambu-dvipa is located at the centre of the Central Sphere. It is so-called because of the abundance of the black-berry trees. Then there are the seas and islands already noted. Jambu-dvipa is the most important to us for another reason, viz., that it is that area in space where we exist. It may be that it is a weakness of the human nature to consider one's own abode as the central of all things, Jambu-dvipa being no exception. But now with scientific developments that have facilitated geographical exploration, our knowlec ge of our own abode, the earth,
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