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Six gifts with no craft in their place

What was never replaced

अप्रतिदेय

Drink, music, light twice over, wreaths and ornaments: six of the ten trees' gifts for which Hemacandra records no craft, no art and no trade — the map leaves those trees unattached.

The map draws a line from each tree to the craft that took its place, and only where Hemacandra draws it: vessels to the potters, houses to carpenters and painters, clothes to the weavers, food to the fields and the fire. Four lines. The other six trees — Madyāṅga, Turyāṅga, Dīpaśikhā, Jyotiṣka, Citrāṅga, Maṇyaṅga — stand with nothing beneath them.

That is not an oversight in the record; it is the record. What the text says about the failing is only that ownership came first and the trees' powers went very, very slowly, through the length of the third age. The Bhogabhūmi still have all ten; in the lands of action the half-cycle keeps turning down, and the four crafts are what a world without trees managed to keep.

Madyāṅgagives drinkno craft in its placeBhṛṅgagives vesselsTuryāṅgagives musicno craft in its placeDīpaśikhāgives lightno craft in its placeJyotiṣkagives lightno craft in its placeCitrāṅgagives wreathsno craft in its placeCitrarasagives foodMaṇyaṅgagives ornamentsno craft in its placeGehākāragives housesAnagnagives clothesthe ten kinds of wishing-tree, in Hemacandra's orderPotters× 20the first — a vessel of clayCarpenters× 20Painters× 20Weavers× 20Barbers× 20answers no treefields and firein the food-tree's placefive crafts of twenty parts each — one hundreda dashed line: a gift, and the craft recorded in its placeVimalavāhanaCakṣuṣmatYaśasvinAbhicandraPrasenajitdhikMarudevaNābhiṚṣabhathe third age — the trees' powers go “very, very slowly”not to scale: two koṭākoṭi sāgaropamathe seven kulakarashā · mā · dhik — the three laws, only wordsthe learning, counted72arts, to Bharata64arts of women18scripts, to Brāhmī — right handarithmetic, to Sundarī — left handTen trees, and what replaced themthe ten kalpavṛkṣa and what each gives — Hemacandra I.2, from the Jambūdvīpaprajñaptithe third age: the trees fail, seven kulakaras keep order with three wordswhat Ṛṣabha taught in their place — and the six gifts nothing replaced100crafts, to replace four gifts
Ten trees, and what replaced them — What was never replaced highlighted

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Replaced4 gifts — vessels, houses, clothes, food
Not replaced6 — drink, music, light ×2, wreaths, ornaments
Whyno craft recorded; the atlas invents none

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समयं गोयम! मा पमायए

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

Uttarādhyayana Sūtra 10