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Ocean · the sixth ring

Puṣkaroda

पुष्करोद

The ocean beyond the third continent, 32,00,000 yojana wide. Ordinary water.

The first ring that lies wholly outside the human world. Nothing here is reachable, and the scriptures accordingly say very little: a width, a name, and the fact that the water is water.

That silence is worth noticing rather than filling. The cosmology is enormously detailed about the two and a half continents where liberation is possible and goes quiet almost immediately outside them. The detail follows the doctrine, not the geography.

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 - Puṣkaroda highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width32,00,000 yojana
Tasteordinary water
Position6th ring out

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10