The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c9.58
The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c9.58
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§113. The Centre World (tiriya-loga). The centre world rests on a disc the thickness of which we may say to be 0. For the 1,000 joy. beneath the surface into which the mountains penetrate (usually with the *uveha*, a fifth quarter of their visible elevation¹) are identical with the 1,000 *joy.* which, in the Rayaṇappabhā, are void of places pertaining to either gods or hells. The surface of the centre world consists of the circular continent of Jambuddīva surrounded by other continents and by oceans in concentric rings.² We shall deal but with the former first.