ब्रह्माण्ड · Brahmāṇḍa
Map of the Vedic Universe
A living diagram of Mount Meru, the fourteen lokas, and the seven continents ringed by seven oceans — drawn from the classical Purāṇic geography of this Brahmāṇḍa.
Tap a loka · Meru axis
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Bhūloka
भूलोक
Our earth-plane — Jambūdvīpa with Meru at its centre, encircled by oceans and sister continents.
Humans, animals, plants — mortal life
Mount Meru
मेरु
The cosmic axis (axis mundi) of Bhūloka — a golden mountain whose peak supports the heavens and whose roots pierce toward the nether worlds. Around it the sun, moon and stars are said to revolve.
Brahmāṇḍa
ब्रह्माण्ड
The ‘egg of Brahmā’ — this entire universe-bubble: fourteen lokas, seven dvīpas and oceans, Lokaloka mountain, and the elemental shells (earth, water, fire, air, ether, ahaṅkāra, mahat) wrapped in pradhāna.
Fourteen lokas
Seven upper worlds rise from Bhūloka toward Satyaloka; seven lower worlds descend toward Pātāla. Meru is the axis that threads them — not a planet map, but a sacred topology of realms.
- Satyalokaसत्यलोक
- Tapolokaतपोलोक
- Janalokaजनलोक
- Maharlokaमहर्लोक
- Svarlokaस्वर्लोक
- Bhuvarlokaभुवर्लोक
- Bhūlokaभूलोक
- Atalaअतल
- Vitalaवितल
- Sutalaसुतल
- Talātalaतलातल
- Mahātalaमहातल
- Rasātalaरसातल
- Pātālaपाताल
Seven dvīpas & oceans
Bhūmaṇḍala spreads like a lotus of concentric lands. Each continent is ringed by its own ocean — salt, sugarcane, wine, ghee, curd, milk, and sweet water — before Lokaloka and the shell of the egg.
- Jambūdvīpa · Lavaṇa (salt)
- Plakṣadvīpa · Ikṣu (sugarcane juice)
- Śālmalidvīpa · Surā (wine)
- Kuśadvīpa · Ghṛta (ghee)
- Krauñcadvīpa · Dadhi (curd)
- Śākadvīpa · Kṣīra (milk)
- Puṣkaradvīpa · Svādūdaka (sweet water)
Sources & notes
- • Loka and dvīpa lists follow the Vishṇu Purāṇa / Bhāgavata Purāṇa tradition of fourteen worlds and seven continents.
- • Exact measures (yojanas) vary across texts; this map prioritises topology and names over scale maths.
- • Nether worlds are realms of power and splendour in the Purāṇas — not simply moral “hells” in the later sense.
- • This is a teaching visualisation — a sacred diagram, not modern astronomy.