— the exact width of the world where humans can be born.
Two continents and half of a third, sealed by the ring-mountain Mānuṣottara. Nobody is born beyond it and nobody dies beyond it. And the crystal slab where liberated souls rest, at the very crown of the universe, is exactly as wide — the ceiling matches the floor.
The Cosmosलोक
A universe made by no one, measured to the last yojana.
The Aḍhāī-dvīpa Atlas
Seven nested maps of the Jain cosmos — 158 clickable places, the true 190-part proportions, Meru in elevation, the wheel of time. Live now.
Open the atlas →Browse every place as a written page →Timeकाल
From the instant that cannot be divided to the age that cannot be counted.
The units of time, and the instant
Two true logarithmic scales meeting at the year: twelve decades below it down to the samaya, and 194 above it to śīrṣaprahelikā — where counting stops and description begins.
Open the time maps →Browse every unit as a written page →Samavasaraṇaसमवसरण
The assembly a Tīrthaṅkara preaches in, and the twelve companies seated in it.
The Samavasaraṇa
The assembly the gods raise when a Tīrthaṅkara attains omniscience. Three ramparts of silver, gold and jewels; twelve companies seated by direction; and on the decks below, the animals that came to hear and the animals that carried people here. Live now.
Open the assembly →Browse every part as a written page →Tīrthaṅkarasतीर्थंकर
The twenty-four of our half-cycle, in descent — and the caubīsīs either side of them.
The Descent
From Ṛṣabha, five hundred dhanuṣ tall with intervals counted in sāgaropamas, down to Mahāvīra, seven hāth and two hundred and fifty years after Pārśva. Every height, lifespan and interval as Hemacandra gives them, on one axis you can travel. Live now.
Walk the Descent →Browse every Tīrthaṅkara as a written page →Nandīśvaraनन्दीश्वर
The eighth continent out — fifty-two temples nobody built, on a band wider than the world it encircles.
The Eighth Continent
Every ring of the middle world is twice the one before, so by the fifteenth ring the human world is not merely small — it is no longer drawable. Drag the scale and watch nine of the sixteen rings vanish. Then open Nandīśvara: four black peaks, sixteen white cylinders, thirty-two jewelled discs, and on all fifty-two an eternal temple. Live now.
Travel out to it →Browse every part as a written page →Airāvaṇaऐरावण
The elephant Indra rides to a Tīrthaṅkara is not an animal — and he is as long as Meru is tall.
The Descent Into Him
Hemacandra describes him once and then goes inward and does not stop. Eight tusks to a face, a lotus-pond on every tusk, eight lotuses in each pond, eight petals to each lotus, and on every petal eight companies of actors, dancing. Click the elephant and keep clicking. Live now.
Go down into him →Read the written entry →The Sixty-Threeशलाकापुरुष
Sixty-three positions held by sixty people — and the strongest of them are not the ones who get out.
Strength Against Destination
The tradition ranks their strength exactly, from twelve men to a bull all the way up to an Indra. Then it shows how little that ranking matters: all sixty-three sit inside a single factor of four, while where they end up runs from the seventh hell to Siddhaśilā. Every Vāsudeva goes to hell — Kṛṣṇa and Lakṣmaṇa among them. Their gentler elder brothers do not. Live now.
See where strength ends →Browse every one as a written page →समयं गोयम! मा पमायए
Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.
Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10