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COSMOS
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Siddhaloka – the world of the beings who have entirely shed all karmas and will never return to any lower level of existence within the universe. See Figure 1.60
Figure 1: The Cosmos
liberated souls those who have accomplished all
five heavens of victory
ninc anudisha heavens
nine graivevaka heavens abode of
the unshakable one the deep one
space
the resolved one
the kneeling doc
with hundred facers with thousand faces
the raduning une
the ultimate radiating one
the mysterious une he of the bunyan tree
the great lond
the greatest lord
the eternally Young one
the very highest lord
the just one
the lolly lord
celestial
lower
bodies celestials
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Middle World -
Indus seal of 2'z-chipa
(dhadripa)
1xt helt real
Jewel hued
3 million bells 180,000 yojanas thick
3 winds surrounding loka
1nd: pebble baed
2,5 million hells
32,000 yojana thick
4th: mud hued
1 milion hells
2 4,000 yojanas thick
5th: smoke hued
301,400 hells
20,000 vojaras thick
oth: dark
49.365 hells
16,000 yojanas thick
pitch dark
5 hells 8,000 yojanas thick
Though Jainism expresses its view on the cosmos in a dualistic way, the deeper and original meaning needs not be dualistic: loka is surrounded by - or exists within - aloka. Thus loka is that aspect of the infinite which can possibly be
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