Jain Journal 1984 01

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JANUARY, 1984
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= 14x} 721+ (1x) Yojanas (using eq. No. 18) = 5095 | Yojanas.....
...............................(19)
Thus the distance between outer limit of innermost lunar mandala and outer limit of outermost lunar mandala 50959 Yojanas.
Besides, as regards the thickness of every lunar mandala, JP.7.19 states as :
i.e. “What are the diameter, circumference and thickness of a lunar mandala ?
“Every lunar mandala is of Yojanas diameter, a little more than three times it circumference and di Yojanas thickness.”
In fact, these dimensions of every lunar mandala appear to be dimensions of the lunar disc. Like the fact that north-south breadth of strap of diurnal path of Sun in any solar mandala was equivalent to the diameter of the solar disc, analogically we may take that diameter of the lunar disc i.e. Yojanas denoted the north-south breadth of strap of the lunar path. Therefore the distance between the outer limit of outermost lunar mandala and the inner limit of innermost lunar mandala is the sum of 5095 Yojanas and the breadh of strap of innermost lunar mandala ( i Yojanas) and it is equal to 51091 Yojanas. Thus the extremities of the extreme lunar mandalas (outer limit of the outermost lunar mandala and inner limit of the innermost lunar (mandala) are in toto coincident with the corresponding extremities of the corresponding extreme solar mandalas as shown below :