This page is a diagram of planetary bodies, their distance from the ground and the distances between some of them.

All the captions on this picture are in Nāgarī script, used here to write the Gujarati language. They are Gujarati translations of the Prakrit verses 48 to 52 of the text of the manuscript. However, since the diagram takes up the whole page, there is no space for the text itself.

There are two levels to this painting, each divided into several panels.

Top row

This is a graphic representation of verses 48 to 50 in the original Prakrit text. These eight panels deal with the distance of the various luminaries or planetary bodies from the surface of the earth and the distance between them. Each panel has a yellow border and a caption. 

From left to right:

• Mount Meru and its forests with the luminaries above
• the sun
• the moon
• one constellation standing for all the constellations
• Mercury
• Venus
• Jupiter
• Mars
• Saturn.

The planets have the colour with which they are traditionally associated – red for Mars, black for Saturn.

Note that the folios are loose so can be turned in various directions. Here, if the folio is rotated the viewer can read the captions on the top panel more easily, reading upwards from Mount Meru on the bottom.

Captions

All in Nāgarī script and going from left to right, the captions are presented in the table.

Captions of top-row pictures

Prakrit caption	English rendering
tārā 790 jojana uṃcā samabhūtala thakī	The stars are 790 yojanas higher than the foot of Mount Meru
tārā thakī jojana 10 sūrya ūṃco	The sun is 10 yojanas higher than the stars
sūrya thī jo° 80 caṃdra uṃco	The moon is 80 yojanas higher than the sun
caṃdra thī yo° 4 nakṣatra	The constellations are 4 yojanas from the moon
naṣatra thī jo°4 Budha ūṃco	Mercury is 4 yojanas higher than the constellations
Budha thī jo° 3 Śukra uṃca jāṃ°	Venus is known to be 3 yojanas higher than Mercury
Śukra thī jo 3 Bṛhaspa°	Jupiter is 3 yojanas from Venus
Bṛhaspatī thī yo 3 Maṃga ja°	Mars is 3 yojanas from Jupiter
Śanī Maṃgala thī jo 3 anī	Saturn is known to be 3 yojanas from Mars

Bottom row

There are three panels on this row, each containing a different picture and caption.

Left-hand panel

The tiered structure with a banner on top is Mount Meru. It is the centre of the Jain world, at the heart of the Mahā-videha and Jambū-dvīpa. It has three terraces, here painted in green. Each one is smaller than the one below and is planted with forests. On the top one – the cūlikā – is a temple to the Jinas, which is here symbolised by the banner. This is often seen at the top of Jain temples even today.

The total height of Mount Meru is 100,000 yojanas, 99,000 of which are above the ground while 1,000 is underground.

The circles around Mount Meru represent the five types of luminaries or planetary bodies. They are known as Jyotiṣa or, here, Jotisi:

1. suns – sūrya
2. moons – candra
3. planets – graha
4. constellations – nakṣatra
5. stars – tārā.

The caption on the left side of the banner reads:

Jotiṣī Meru thakī alagā 1121 jojana caṃdramā sūrya graha nakṣatra tārā rahai.
The luminaries – moon, sun, planets, constellations, stars – are at a distance of 1121 yojanas from the Meru.

The caption on the right side says the same:

1121 jojana Meru thakī Jotiṣī alagā rahe chaiṃ //
The luminaries are at a distance of 1121 yojanas from the Meru.

Central panel

This consists of a green background above a semicircle shape, which sits on a yellow band above a caption.

This caption, a Gujarati rendering of part of verse 52, describes the shape of the luminaries. Although the luminary pictured here is a semicircle, the usual shape is the circle.

The caption reads:

araddha kavaṭṭhāgārā e gāhā no artha teha no jantra jāṃṇavo
These planets have the shape of half-circles. The meaning should be known from the diagram.

Right panel

There are two smaller sections making up the panel. In the left-hand one, yellow circles stack vertically around a grey circle, which has a darker slice.

The section on the right has a green background with a large black semicircle down the left.

This diagram can be understood with the caption below:

aloka thī jojana 1111 Jotiṣī alagā rahai //
The luminaries are at a distance of 1111 yojanas from the trans‑cosmic space

The trans-cosmic space is a vacuum. The black semicircle on the right probably represents this vaccum. This diagram is an attempt to depict part of verse 51 of the Saṃgrahaṇī-ratna or Trailokyadīpikā.

Other visual elements

The right-hand margin contains the number 14, which is the folio number.