The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c9.27

c9.27

§108. The regions are determined in respect of their depth only, but not as to their width. Of the latter Viy. 604 b (=Jīv. 306a) merely says that it increases downwards. The depth decreases from 180,000 *joy.* in the Rayaṇappabhā down to 108,000 in the Ahesattamā which is the number of the places of hell it contains (*niray’āvāsa*), 8.4 mill. in all, and in the 1st to the 5th region from 3 mill. down to 300,000. Tamā has 99,995, Ahesattamā but 5, though especially extensive, places. While (Pannav. 79b) the layers of the 1st to the 6th region lie between every two unoccupied layers of 1,000 *joy.*—the upper one in the Rayaṇappabhā equals the thickness of Jambuddīva (§ 113)—, these layers in the 7th region amount the 52,500 *joy.*, so that the occupied is but 3,000 *joy.* in depth here. In the Rayaṇappabhā we have three special layers: Khara-kaṇḍa, Pakabahula-k. and Āubahula-k. of 16, 000, 84, 000 and 80,000 *joy.* These names indicate the transition to the water hull which follows accordingly. The former on its part has 16 layers of 1,000 *joy.* each, the uppermost being called Rayaṇa-k. (Thāṇ. 525a; Samav. 89b f., 92b, 104b).