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Great Videha
land of not noble thinking people (Mlecchakhanda)
Sikharin Mountains
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Figure 4: Jambu-dvipa
Rukmini Mountains.
Blue Mountains
ww Lake?
Nishada Mountains
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Great Himavan Mountains
land of not noble thinking people (Mlecchakhanda)
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Himavan Mountains
Meru
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land of noble thinking people (Aryakhanda)
Silk White
Silver White
Sapphire Blue
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Morning Glory
White like the Arjuna tree
Silk White
land of noble thinking people (Aryakhanda)
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Great Videha
So altogether there are fourteen main rivers, each of which has 14,000 tributaries. The middle continent, in the center of which we find Mount Meru, is called (Great) Videha. On the three continents "North" (Uttara) of Videha conditions are the same as on the three to the "South," but in the opposite order. Around Jambūdvīpa and its salt ocean are the many circular dvīpas, and the first two of these, Dhātakīkhanda and Pushkaravara (Figure 3), are of special interest for humankind. Between Dhātakīkhanda and Pushkaravara is the Kāla Ocean, which means the Ocean of Time. In the middle of the Pushkaravara ring is a mountain range called "the mountain range beyond which humans can not go.' So we
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