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Nandīśvaroda

नन्दीश्वरोद

The ocean that closes around Nandīśvara, 3,27,68,00,000 yojana wide. Ordinary water.

Twice the width of the continent it surrounds, as every ocean is. After the four flavoured seas the water goes back to being water and stays that way for the rest of the universe.

Past it the rings continue - Aruṇa, Aruṇavara, Aruṇābhāsa, Kuṇḍala, Rucaka and onward - innumerable, doubling forever, until Svayambhūramaṇa closes the middle world.

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 - Nandīśvaroda highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width3,27,68,00,000 yojana
Tasteordinary water
SurroundsNandīśvara

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10