Wikipedia's article on Jain cosmology, the structure of the loka or universe in Jain doctrine, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on Jain cosmology, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the fifth Anga of the Svetambara canon describing the loka's shape, the rajju unit of measurement, and the Digambara figure of 343 cubic rajju against the Svetambara figure of 239.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_cosmology
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