[lokyate'sau lok-ghañ] 1 The world, a divison of the universe; (roughly speaking there are three lokas svarga, pṛthvī and pātāla, but accord- ing to fuller classification the lokas are fourteen, seven higher regions rising from the earth one above the other, i. e. bhūrloka, bhuvarloka, svarloka, maha- rloka, janarloka, taparloka, and satyaloka or brahmaloka; and seven lower regions, descending from the earth one be-...