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(E) MISCLLANEOUS Hemacaodra has accepted fourteen Bhuvanas (I.197) which have been explained by Abhaytilakagaņi as 1. Bbūḥ 2. Bhuvaḥ 3. Svaḥ 4. Mahaḥ 5. Janaḥ 6. 'Tapaḥ 7. Satya and seven types of Vāyu.
Hemacandra has enlisted eight directions as 1. Aindri 2. Āgneyi 3. Yāmyā 4. Nairști 5. Vāruņi 6. Vāyavyā 7. Kauberi and 8. Aiśānī (I. 196; IV.36). Agastyā direction has also been referred to (IV.89). At another place, he speaks of four directions (11.3,10).
Hemacandra speaks of nine Islands (Dvīpa I.196). They have been explained as 1. Navendra 2. Kaścrumat 3. Tāmraparna 4. Gabhastimat 5. Nāga 6. Saumya 7. Gandharva 8. Varuņa apd 9. Kumārī. Rājasekhara in his Kāvyamimāṁsā speaks of these nine dvīpas?.
Hemacandra has accepted four oceans which encircle the earth. They are explained as Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern oceans.
The concept of the Ganges of the sky (VyomagangaIII.105) also occurs in the poem.
1, Kāvyamimārā, p.92,
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