ABSTRACT
IN the book of the J;tishi Bhuvanakosa we read that the inhabitable world stretches from Himavant towards the 'soutb, and is called Bharata-oarsha, so called from a man, Bharata, who ruled over them and provided for them. The inhabitants of this OlKOVJ1-EV'i} are those to whom alone reward and punishment in another "life are destined. It is divided into nine parts, called Nauaklumda-proihama, i.e. the primary nine parts. Between each two parts there is a sea, which they traverse from one khanda to the other. The breadth of the inhabitable world from north to south is 1000 yojana.
