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Mount Meru

6 articles in the archive discuss Mount Meru, from Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, The Indian Historical Quarterly (1928–1987). Open any article for its summary, citation and original PDF.

6 articles

Articles discussing Mount Meru

  1. Notion of Declination Implied in the Concept of Mandala (Diurnal Circle) in Jaina School of Astronomy

    Sajjan Singh Lishk · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1984

    “Jainas had a strange theory of two Suns and two Moons moving in circles rourm the mount Meru? placed at the centre of Jambudvipa, the central island of flat earth? made up of concentric rings of land masses alternatively surrounded by ocean rings.”
  2. Mathematical Aspects of Jambudvipa

    Sajjan Singh Lishk · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1987

    “Jambudvipa forms nucleus of the system of alternate landmasses and ocean rings. Mathematical consistency of the dimensions of the mount Meru placed at the centre of Jambudvipa is not a matter of mere coincidence.”
  3. The Jaina School of Astronomy

    Sukumar Ranjan Das · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1932

  4. An Obesiance to the Source of Uncreated Light

    Paresh Chandra Dasgupta · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1978

  5. Some Cosmological Ideas of the Jainas

    Amulya Chandra Sen · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1932

  6. Hindu Calendar

    Sukumar Ranjan Das · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1928