The Last Instants
The kevali-samudghāta and the rise: in the last antarmuhūrta an omniscient becomes a rod, a door, a churn and, for one samaya, the whole universe, and back; then the śaileśī, five short vowels long, and one samaya straight up to the end of the loka.
The one process in the atlas that truly happens in time, drawn as the reader steps it. An omniscient whose remaining karmas outrun the life left levels them by expanding across the universe in four samayas and withdrawing in four, its innumerable space-points on the loka's innumerable space-points one to one at the fourth; in three of the eight it takes nothing in. Then the yogas are stilled, the fourteenth rung lasts as long as a, i, u, ṛ, ḷ, and the freed soul rises in one samaya, without a turn, to the loka's end, where the medium of motion stops. Its measure there is two-thirds of the body it left: 333⅓ dhanuṣ at most, derived from the descent chapter's own heights. Follows the Śvetāmbara reckoning throughout.
All of it is also walkable as an interactive atlas of nested maps.
The eight 7
- Anāhāraka अनाहारक
Samayas 3, 4 and 5 - Daṇḍa दण्ड
Samaya 1 and 7 - Kapāṭa कपाट
Samaya 2 and 6 - Kevali-samudghāta केवलि-समुद्घात
Eight samayas - Loka-pūraṇa लोकपूरण
Samaya 4 - Manthāna मन्थान
Samaya 3 and 5 - The four made equal आयु-सम
Why the samudghāta happens