WORLD SYSTEM - စကၠ၀ါဠ


စကၠ၀ါဠ (Cakkavᾱḷa) - စၾက၀ဠာ၊ ေလာကဓာတ္။

ဗုဒၶဘာသာအဖြင့္က်မ္းမ်ားအဆုိအရ - သမုဒၵရာႀကီးေလးစင္း၊ ကၽြန္းႀကီးေလးကၽြန္းႏွင့္ ျမင့္မုိရ္ေတာင္တုိ႔ ပါ၀င္ေသာ လူ, နတ္, ျဗဟၼာ သတၱ၀ါတုိ႔ေနထုိင္ရာ ကမၻာေလာကႀကီးတစ္ခုကုိ စၾက၀ဠာဟုေခၚသည္။ ထုိစၾက၀ဠာကုိ ၀န္းရံေနေသာ ေတာင္တန္းႀကီးကုိလည္း စၾက၀ဠာေတာင္ဟု ေခၚသည္။ ဤကဲ့သုိ႔ေသာ စၾက၀ဠာေပါင္း မေရမတြက္ႏုိင္ေအာင္ ရွိသည္။

WORLD SYSTEM
Universe; cosmological entity

According to Buddhist sources, the four great oceans, the four great islands (continents) and Mt. Meru, where men, devas and brahmas live, constitute a Cakkavᾱḷa. The whole is bounded by a mountain range, which is called Mt. Cakkavᾱḷa Pabbata. There are innumerable number of such Cakkavᾱḷas.