Continent · the half ring
Puṣkarārdha
पुष्करार्ध
The inner half of Puṣkaravara continent. The outer half exists but no human has ever seen it.
Puṣkaravara is 16,00,000 yojana wide. Mānuṣottara runs around it exactly halfway, and everything past that mountain is closed to humanity. So the human world takes the inner 8,00,000 and stops.
The inner half is built like Dhātakīkhaṇḍa: two Iṣvākāra walls, an eastern and a western half, each a full copy of Jambūdvīpa's geography. Its Merus are Mandara in the east and Vidyunmālī in the west, both 84,000 yojana.
The land beyond Mānuṣottara is not empty. Animals, plants and elemental life fill it. What it lacks is people, and therefore time as humans reckon it, and therefore any possibility of liberation.
It takes its name from the puṣkara tree.
Measurements and counts
| Full ring width | 16,00,000 yojana |
|---|---|
| Inhabited half | 8,00,000 yojana |
| Merus | Mandara (E), Vidyunmālī (W) |
| Meru height | 84,000 yojana |
| Regions in the half | 14 |
| Suns / moons | 72 / 72 |