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Ocean · tastes of milk

Kṣīroda

क्षीरोद

5,12,00,000 yojana of milk.

The second of the four flavoured oceans. Water drawn from it is milk, and the tradition uses it as the type of purity - the ocean of milk is what an image is bathed in, in the imagination if nowhere else.

It is 512 times the width of Jambūdvīpa, and there is no one anywhere in it to taste it.

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 - Kṣīroda highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width5,12,00,000 yojana
Tastemilk

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10