The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c7.s2.32

c7.s2.32

6. Jambuddīvapannatti. A description of the Jambuddīva, the centre of the physical universe. In the Divasāgarap. (§ 47) we have portions describing the Jambuddīva in the same words, and KURFEL (Z I I 3, 50ff) was right in inferring that once both texts formed a whole and that, when they were disjoined, the position of the Jambudd. were repeated in the Divas. for the purpose of acting as a fundament and a starting-point. The usual costume of question and reply was dropped altogether in the continuous portions; as in the Jiv. there are no sections, but the comm.has 7 vakṣaskāra, an expression occurring in the cosmography (§ 115) only.