A kind of Kālika Śruta (a category of Āgama (2) (canonical work) which can be studied only in the first and last quarter of day and night); it is one of the twenty-two Prakiraṇakas (Āgamas extracted by the Sthaviras (elder ascetics) from the scriptures); a treatise in which the description of the continents (islands) and oceans as well as the habitats (abodes) of their inhabitant Jyotiṣka (Luminous gods), Vānamantara (Forest-dwelling gods) and Bhavanpati (Mansion-dwelling gods) is given.
jā dīvasāgarapaṇṇattī sā dīvasāyarāṇaṃ taṭṭhatthiyajoyisa-vana-bhavaṇāvāsāṇaṃ....vaṇṇaṇaṃ kuṇai.
(KaPrā 1 p. 133)