The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c9.77

c9.77

The mountains and rivers, as well as the estuary forests of the Siyā and Sioyā form, in equal distances, the boundaries of the empires (*cakkavaṭṭi-vijaya*) under the rulership of a world-emperor (*cakkavaṭṭi*). By including Bharaha and Eravaya there are 34 of them in all (Thāṇ. 435 b). The empire of Bharaha with its Veyaḍḍha,² with its Gaṅgā and Sindhū and other geographical details is merely copied by the remaining ones, and so are these names. There we also find a great number of cities with an imperial residence in each case, and countless villages.