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References:
1. This material includes Jaina Bharati and Jaina Geography by Jnanmati Mataji and papers presented by the Digambara Jaina Institute of Cosmographic Research in June 2010 (see Bibliography).1 See- Preface and Bibliography in Bossche 2007. 2. This name reflects the fact that the lengths and sizes of various parts of the world are given thorough mathematical treatment (See e.g. Bossche 2007:68-73).
3. The translation of kṣetra into 'Major Area' and khaṇḍa and bhūmi into 'Minor Area' is not philologically correct, but I have chosen them in order to make the matter as simple and understandable as possible.
4. The terms for happy and unhappy are suṣamā and duṣamā.
5. By Mahopadhyay Vinya Sagar (nd), Prakrit Bharati Acadamy, Jaipur.
6. See depiction of Sukhavati in JAS (Calcutta), vol. 43, no. 4 (2001), p. 26.
7. Also known as the Vyakhyāprajñapti, the fifth limb of the Śvetambara canon.
8. The use of the term "scriptures" can be misleading in the Jaina context (See Dundas 2002:60-3).
9. For some examples of Modernized Jainism see articles from the New York based Jain Study Circle .web page (http:// www.jainstudy.org/, accessed 08.02.2011), e.g. Jain 2007 and Machwe 2008.
Bibliography
1. Bossche, Frank van den (2007): Elements of Jaina Geography. The Jambudvipasangrahaṇī of Haribhadra Sūri, Motilal Banarsidass,
Delhi.
2. Chandnamati, Prajnashramani Aryika: "Jambūdvīpa - The First Geographical Creation" -a paper presented at the 6th International Summer School for Jaina Studies at the Digambara Triloka Śodha Sansthāna, Hastinapur.
3. Cort, John E. (2001): Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India, Oxford University Press, Oxford
4. Dundas, Paul (2002): The Jains, Routledge, New York
