The Logassa, named from its opening word meaning roughly 'of the world' or 'light of the world,' names all twenty-four tirthankaras of the current cosmic time cycle in a fixed order, from Rishabhanatha, the first, through to Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and most recent, a sequence Jain tradition treats as historically and cosmologically fixed rather than open to reordering or selective inclusion. This complete enumeration distinguishes it clearly from the Namokar Mantra, which venerates categories of spiritual attainment without naming individuals, and gives the Logassa a specifically historical and lineage-oriented character, situating the reciter within a very long chain of teachers understood to have appeared across an immense span of cosmic time rather than only in relation to the most recent and best documented tirthankara, Mahavira.
Jain cosmology holds that time moves in enormous cycles, and that each cycle produces its own set of twenty-four tirthankaras, meaning the specific twenty-four named in the Logassa belong to the current cycle only, with different names understood to apply in cycles that came before and will come after, a framework that gives the prayer's naming of individuals a scope simultaneously historical and cosmological.