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Thus we get the 12 1/2 krores of Sridhara. Beyond the Golden land is the Lokaloka Mountain. This will also explain the quotation from Siva Tantra. The following Diagram will partially ill.u.s.trate the points.

Lokaloka

The Golden Land --------------------------------

Land beyond Pure Water Ocean --------------------------------

Pure Water Ocean --------------------------------

P u s h ( * * Manasottara k a r a

Milk Ocean -------------------------------

Saka -------------------------------

Sour Milk Ocean -------------------------------

Krouncha -------------------------------

Clarified b.u.t.ter Ocean -------------------------------

Kusa -------------------------------

Wine Ocean -------------------------------

Salmali -------------------------------

Sugarcane Juice Ocean -------------------------------

Plaksha -------------------------------

Salt Ocean -------------------------------

* Meru, Jambu -------------------------------

The Lokaloka is the boundary of three Lokas, Bhur, Bhuvar, and Svar.

The rays of the numerous bodies from the Sun up to Dhruva illuminate the regions on the Triloka side of Lokaloka but they can never reach its other side. For such is the height and expanse of Lokaloka - (It is even higher than Dhruva. So it is the boundary of Triloki. _Sridhara_).

The Bhu-Golaka or the Bhur system measures 50 Krores. And Lokaloka is one-fourth of that _i.e._ 12 1/2 Krores (on one side of Meru.