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Ocean · the salt sea

Lavaṇa Samudra

लवण समुद्र

The salt ocean, a ring 2,00,000 yojana wide, wrapped around Jambūdvīpa.

Its water is salt, and its floor slopes down from the shores toward the middle, where it reaches 1,000 yojana deep. At the centre stands a raised body of water 16,000 yojana high, held up and pushed down twice a day by the Pātāla vessels beneath it — the Jain account of tides.

Fifty-six antardvīpas sit in this ocean, in the north-east, north-west, south-east and south-west quadrants off the ends of the Himavān and Śikharī ranges.

Four suns and four moons circle above it.

SudarśanaVijayaAcalaMandaraVidyunmālīJambūdvīpaLavaṇa SamudraDhātakīkhaṇḍaKālodadhiPuṣkarārdhaJambūdvīpa2 suns · 2 moonsLavaṇa Samudra4 suns · 4 moonsDhātakīkhaṇḍa12 suns · 12 moonsKālodadhi42 suns · 42 moonsPuṣkarārdha72 suns · 72 moonsMānuṣottarano human passes itEach ring is twice the width of the one before it,and every ring is counted on both sides:1 + 2+2 + 4+4 + 8+8 + 8+8 lakh yojana= 45,00,000 yojana across5 Merus · 170 lands of action132 suns · 132 moons · 56 islands22,50,000 yojana — half the human worldNuttaraEpūrvaSdakṣiṇaWpaścimareckoned from Meruyou are here
The two and a half continents — Lavaṇa Samudra highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width2,00,000 yojana
Greatest depth1,000 yojana
Central swell16,000 yojana high
Islands56 antardvīpas
Suns / moons4 / 4

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10