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Continent · the fifth ring

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.

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