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COSMOGRAPHY periods. By calling them both samā, Thān. 47b may well have thought of the adj. sama.
After the dūsama-dūsamā has come to its end, the cloud of Pukkhala-samvattagal appears in the dūsamā It is as big and thick as is Bharaha, and in a tempest lasting for seven days it extinguishes the fire. Now for the same time rains fall from the cloud of Khirameha thus producing colours, smells, etc potentially. With the Ghayameha there comes fertile humidity (sineha-bhāva), the Amayameha causes plants to grow, and the Naramsameha gives them flavour. Now all people come to light again and greet the reborn earth. Then the remaining periods up to the susama-susamā follow. This scquence pertains to Bharaha and Eravaya only, whereas in the other continents the conditions mentioned last for ever. Chronology is unknown there (V1y 791b).
$121. The Jambuddīva is surrounded on all sides by an enclosure (jagai) with numerous window-like openings. It measures 8 joy. in height and its width decreases from 12 to 4 joy. From the centre of its surface a pinnacle (veiya) stands up 1 joy high and 500 dhanu wide, and a grove (vana-sanda) extends in front of it. All measurements are made by starting from the outermost edge of this pinnacle. In the four main directions the enclosure is breached by a gate which, again, is 8 joy high and 4 joy. wide. The rivers Sīyā and Sãoyā fall into the eastern and western gates, since they form the entrances leading to the Lavana sea. There are thrce other entrances of such a kind to the east, south and west of Bharaha and Eravaya. They are the tittha we find in the legend of Bharaha (Jambudd III).
The Lavana sea has a width of 200,000 309. Its maximum depth is 1,000 joy. with a mean strip of 10,000 joy down to
Also Viy 232 b In another content this word stands for a generic name, where (Thān 270b) the rain-power of clouds is being described A single rainfall from thc pukh lasts for 100,000 ycars, from the bautunna for 1,000, from the jimila for 10, while many show crs from the jimha do not mean a rcal rain for certain
2 Thus the comm, acc to thc text thic jagai is cnclosed by a jala ka daga. The following very'ā we mentioned in § 116 alıcady-,
| SR No. | 011097 |
| Book Title | Doctrine of Jainas |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen |
| Publisher | Motilal Banarasidas |
| Publication Year | 1978 |
| Total Pages | 309 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 17 MB |