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Kṣīravara

क्षीरवर

The fifth continent, 2,56,00,000 yojana wide, named for the ocean of milk beyond it.

Wider than everything inside it put together - a property every ring from here outward has, because doubling makes each ring exceed the sum of all its predecessors.

That is the arithmetic that eventually makes Nandīśvara larger than the entire radius of the world it encircles.

the human world ends hereMānuṣottara · everything before this rung12345678910111213141516Nandīśvara →The first sixteen ringswidth in yojana · each twice the one before1Jambūdvīpa1,00,0002Lavaṇa Samudra2,00,0003Dhātakīkhaṇḍa4,00,0004Kālodadhi8,00,0005Puṣkaravara16,00,0006Puṣkaroda32,00,0007Vāruṇīvara64,00,0008Vāruṇoda1,28,00,0009Kṣīravara2,56,00,00010Kṣīroda5,12,00,00011Ghṛtavara10,24,00,00012Ghṛtoda20,48,00,00013Ikṣuvara40,96,00,00014Ikṣuvaroda81,92,00,00015Nandīśvara-dvīpa1,63,84,00,00016Nandīśvaroda3,27,68,00,000all sixteen are legible at this scale, and none is honestNandīśvara is lit - open itOnly the first 16 of innumerable ringsthe middle world goes on, ring after ring, each twice the last, to Svayambhūramaṇaeach ring is twice the width of the one before · innumerable more lie beyond
The middle world, ring by ring - Kṣīravara highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width2,56,00,000 yojana
Position5th continent

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

Do not be heedless, Gautama, for even a single samaya.

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10