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Seven Upper Lokas.

The familiar seven-upper-loka sequence.

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Realms & Cosmic Worlds

The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Bhurloka

The terrestrial world in the seven-upper-loka scheme; not a single city or temple.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Bhuvarloka

The intermediate region between the terrestrial world and the celestial sphere in the seven-loka model.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Janaloka

A higher contemplative realm associated with exalted sages in Puranic cosmology.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Maharloka

A higher realm associated with great sages in the seven-upper-loka arrangement.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Satyaloka

Brahma’s highest loka within the seven-upper-loka system, also called Brahmaloka in this context.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Svarga

The celestial world of the devas in many epic and Puranic accounts, distinct from final liberation.

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The Cosmic Ocean Reveals Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, style of Sajnu, Mandi, Panjab Hills, North India, 1835; opaque watercolor and gold on paper, San Diego Museum of Art 1990.136 (source-page catalog metadata).Archival contextRealm

Upper lokas

Tapoloka

A realm associated with profound ascetic practice in the seven-upper-loka model.

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