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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.

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