Book Title: Gommatasara Jiva Kanda
Author(s): Nemichandra Siddhant Chakravarti, J L Jaini
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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________________ 72 THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE JAINAS. only in the first 2 oceans, first 2} continents, last continent and the last ocean. Five sensed rational human beings are found only in the first 2! continents and the first 2 oceans. Five-sensed rational subhuman beings of the Bhoga-Bhúmi type are found everywhere except the last half continent and the last ocean. Beyond Manushottara up to the Syayamprabhá there are only 5 sensed animals with mind, only of the Bhoga Bhúmi type. In the last continent and the last ocean there are all kinds of sub-human animals of the Karma Bhúmi type. The enormous, almost unimaginable, extent of the last of the innumerable continents and oceans is evident from the fact that Jambúdvípa the first of them is one lac yojans in diameter. Each yojan being of the larger kind which is 500 times of the smaller yojan which is equal to 4 koses or 8 miles. Thus the diamete of Jambúdvípa is 40,00,00,000 miles. This figure is doubled in a geometric-progression and it is impossible for the ordinary human mind to conceive it when we consider the dimensions of the last ocean. The lotus in the last ocean has a stalk 1000 yojans long and 1 yojan in diameter. Its whole volume is about 750 cubic yojans. And the great fish there, is 1000 yojans long, 500 broad and 250 yojans thick. These huge dimensions of living beings are quite in keeping with the dimensions of Swayambhú ramana samudra, the last and biggest of all the oceans in the universe. and they are quite possible and reasonable. These matters like all others, are quite plain to the Omniscient, who is the ultimate source of our knowledge about them. Here one Yojana is equal to four Krosas, or 8 miles. This is the ordinary short Yojana which is used for measuring bodies. The great Yojana which is five-hundred times greater is used in showing the measures of continents and oceans etc. वितिचप पुण्णजहणणं अणुन्धरी कुन्थुकाण मच्छीसु। सिच्छयमच्छे विदंगुल संखं गुणिदकमा ॥६६॥ द्वि त्रिचप पूर्ण जघन्य मनुंधरी कुंथु काण मक्षिकासु। सिक्थकमस्स्ये वृन्दांगुलसंख्यं संख्यगुणितक्रमाः॥१६॥ 96. The minimum (size) of the developable two (sensed soul, as in the case of Anundhari, (is) a certain numerable Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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