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FIG. XLV. Bharata-kşetra. (After Muktyanand Singh Jain.) 1, part of the eastern hemisphere; 2, Arya-khanda; 3, Mleccha-khanda; 4, Vijayārdha mountain; 6, river Gangā; 5, river Yamuna;
7. Hima vat mountain; 8, Padma lake; 9, river Rohitåsvă
and the outer rarefied gases (ghanodadhi). The Siddha-filā or the space of the liberated souls is the summit of the cosmos in the form of a bi-meniscus convex lens with its concavity downwards. The portion, thence to the bottom, as broad as the waist-like part of the cosmos, is only inhabitated by trasa-jīvas or the mobile beings and is called, therefore, the trasa-nali, measuring 14 raijusa in height and 7 in depth as the loka itself and 1 rajju in width as against the loka which measures in general 7 rajjus. The cosmos,
1 The transmigrating souls, within which are not included the Siddhas who are emancipated, are either mobile (trasa) or immobile (sthāvara). Earth, water, fire, air and plants are immobile beings, all with the only sense of touch. The mobile beings, having a gradual increase in the senses of taste, smell, sight and hearing, may be termed as twosensed and onwards. The five-sensed ones are all the celestial, human and hellish beings and partly the animals.
Literally a rope, the rajju is a linear astrophysical measure, being the distance which a male celestial being flies in six months at the rate of 2,857,152 yojanas in one samaya or the sbortest unit of time, though all this cannot be subjected to any mathematical computations.
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