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Jambudvipa, also known as Sudarśanadvīpa, forms the innermost concentric island in the above scheme. Its name is said to derive from the jambu tree, Syzygium cumini . The fruits of the jambu tree are said, in the Viṣṇupurāṇa (ch.2), to be as large as Asian elephants , and when they become rotten and fall upon the crest of the mountains ...
The Jambudvipa region to the south of Uttarapatha was known as Majjhimadesa (or the Middle Country) in Buddhist texts and Madhyadesa in Puranic texts. According to Buddhist texts, Kamboja and Gandhara , two of the sixteen Mahajanapadas or great nations referred to in the Anguttara Nikaya and Chulla-Niddesa belonged to the Uttarapatha .
"This (Brahmaputra) is the eastern boundary of Jambudvipa, its western boundary being the mouths of the Indus and its southern boundary being the Indian Ocean or Rama Sethu." [ 58 ] Between first century BCE [ 59 ] and ninth century CE [ 60 ] [ 61 ]
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Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.. It consists of a temporal and a spatial cosmology.
Jambudvipa is the innermost of these island continents, shaped like a disc. The earth rests upon the head of Shesha , the cosmic serpent, who is himself supported by the tortoise named Akupara , who is supported by the Ashtadiggajas , the eight celestial elephants that stand on the shell of Brahmanda .
Aspects of religious geography, and in this context description of Jambudvipa and Bharata-varsha, and certain other locations identified as islands and landmasses like Anudvipa, Ketumaala-varsha. About 20% of the chapters are related to Lalitopakhyana, that is highlighting the goddess theology and her central importance