जै · The Jain Encyclopedia
Section · 30 ratnas, nidhis and stops

The Emperor

चक्रवर्ती

Fourteen treasures, seven of them people; nine chests that never empty; and a march of sixty thousand years that uses every one of them.

A Cakravartin carries fourteen ratnas — seven things and seven people — and nine nidhis, chests on eight wheels that live at the mouth of the Gaṅgā. Hemacandra tells Bharata's conquest of all six khaṇḍas of Bharat in order: the three sea-tīrthas, up the Sindhu, through the dark of Tamisrā by the light of the gem, the northern khaṇḍas, his name on Ṛṣabhakūṭa, twelve years' war with the Vidyādharas, down the Gaṅgā, and home after sixty thousand years. Every ratna is the answer to one obstacle on that road. Only two of the fourteen have a size the text states, and this atlas prints those two and leaves the rest blank. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.

All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.

The march 5

The nidhis 10

The ratnas 15

समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10