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Continent · the fourth ring

Vāruṇīvara

वारुणीवर

The fourth continent, 64,00,000 yojana wide, and the first that no account of the human world needs to mention at all.

By here the doubling has become the only thing that matters: this ring is 64 times the width of Jambūdvīpa, and the next continent out is four times wider again.

It is named for the ocean beyond it, Vāruṇoda, whose water tastes of wine.

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 - Vāruṇīvara highlighted

Measurements and counts

Ring width64,00,000 yojana
Position4th continent
Named forthe ocean beyond it

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10