JAINpedia's page on the Jain cycle of time rests on the same institutional curation as the rest of the site: a public education project of the Institute of Jainology rather than an academic monograph, with content credited to Professor Nalini Balbir but no page specific individual author named. What the atlas can verify is that it is a specialist, credentialed source for Jain cosmology and doctrine specifically, not a general encyclopedia entry; it has not independently traced a documented history of corrections or scholarly disputes about the specific figures given here. Strong for the standard textual account of the twelve ara and their sagaropama and year figures; a claim about how these figures are read differently across the Digambara and Svetambara traditions may need a more specialized source alongside it.
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: a digitised reference resource produced by the Institute of Jainology with academic input, content credited to Professor Nalini Balbir, rather than a peer-reviewed monograph, so rated below a scholarly monograph such as Dundas's The Jains but above a general encyclopedia. States plainly the sagaropama and year figures for each of the twelve ara of the avasarpini and utsarpini half cycles, and that liberation is possible only during the third and fourth ara of each phase. NotesJAINpedia's page on the Jain cycle of time (kalachakra), the twelve ara of the avasarpini and utsarpini half cycles, consulted 2026-08-14. A digitisation and public education project of the Institute of Jainology, run in partnership with the British Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Asiatic Society, with content credited to a named academic, Professor Nalini Balbir. Closer to a curated institutional reference resource than a general encyclopedia, though it is not itself a peer-reviewed publication and no individual author is named for this specific page.
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AuthorNo individual author named; content credited to Professor Nalini Balbir
PublisherInstitute of Jainology
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://jainpedia.org/themes/principles/jain-universe/cycles-of-time/
Source Typereference
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This source names Digambara directly: "are read differently across the Digambara and Svetambara traditions may need a more specialized source alongside it."
This source names Svetambara directly: "differently across the Digambara and Svetambara traditions may need a more specialized source alongside it."
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- Ages, 30 claims: 20 well-attested, 5 holds, 5 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
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