Puṣkara-dvīpa

The third continent of the middle world of Jain cosmology. Human beings can live only in the first two circular continents and the inner half of the third. Puṣkara-dvīpa is enclosed by a circular mountain barrier known as Mānuṣottara-parvata or ‘Mountain beyond Mankind’. Human beings cannot live on the outer side of these mountains.

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