The Wishing-Trees
Ten kinds of tree that gave a world everything it needed, drawn beside the hundred crafts it took to replace four of their gifts when they failed — and the six gifts nothing ever replaced.
In the lands of enjoyment, and in the first three ages of every half-turn of the wheel, nobody works: ten kinds of kalpavṛkṣa give what is asked — drink, vessels, music, light twice over, wreaths, food, ornaments, houses, clothes. Hemacandra names them and says what each gives. Through the third age their powers go, in his words, very, very slowly; seven kulakaras keep order with three laws that are only words, hā, mā, dhik; and the last of them, Nābhi, is the father of Ṛṣabha, who teaches what a world without trees needs — five crafts of twenty parts each, a hundred; fields and fire; seventy-two arts to Bharata, eighteen scripts to Brāhmī, arithmetic to Sundarī. The atlas draws the ten trees, the crafts beneath the trees they answer, a line between them only where Hemacandra ties them — and the six trees with nothing beneath, because nothing is recorded there. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.
All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.
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- Anagna अनग्न
Kalpavṛkṣa 10 of 10 - Bhṛṅga भृङ्ग
Kalpavṛkṣa 2 of 10 - Citrāṅga चित्राङ्ग
Kalpavṛkṣa 6 of 10 - Citrarasa चित्ररस
Kalpavṛkṣa 7 of 10 - Dīpaśikhā दीपशिखा
Kalpavṛkṣa 4 of 10 - Gehākāra गेहाकार
Kalpavṛkṣa 9 of 10 - Jyotiṣka ज्योतिष्क
Kalpavṛkṣa 5 of 10 - Madyāṅga मद्याङ्ग
Kalpavṛkṣa 1 of 10 - Maṇyaṅga मण्यङ्ग
Kalpavṛkṣa 8 of 10 - The hundred crafts शत शिल्प
Five crafts of twenty parts each - The seven kulakaras कुलकर
Patriarchs of the third age - The seventy-two arts बहत्तर कला
72 to Bharata - The Wishing-Trees कल्पवृक्ष
Ten trees, and what replaced them - Turyāṅga तूर्याङ्ग
Kalpavṛkṣa 3 of 10 - What was never replaced अप्रतिदेय
Six gifts with no craft in their place