The name given to a whole world-system, there being countless such systems.
Each Cakkavála is twelve hundred and three thousand, four hundred and fifty yojanas in extent and consists of the earth, two hundred and four thousand nahutas of yojanas in volume, surrounded by a region of water four hundred and eight thousand nahutas of yojanas in volume. This rests on air, the thickness of which is nine hundred and sixty thousand nahutas of yojanas. In the centre of the Cakkavála is Mount Sineru, one hundred and sixty-eight yojanas in height, half of which is immersed in the ocean.
Around Sineru are seven mountain ranges, Yugandhara, Isadhara, Karavíka, Sudassana, Nemindhara, Vinataka and Assakanna. The mountains are inhabited by the Regent Gods (Mahárájas) and their followers, the Yakkhas.
Within the Cakkavála is the Himavá mountain, one hundred leagues high, with eighty-four thousand peaks. Surrounding the whole Cakkavála is the Cakkaválasilá. Belonging to each Cakkavála is a moon, forty-nine leagues in diameter, a sun of fifty leagues, the Távatimsabhavana, the Asurabhavana, the Avícimahániraya and the four mahádípas - Jambudípa, Aparagoyána, Pubbavideha and Uttarakuru, each mahádípa surrounded by five hundred minor dípas.
Between the Cakkavalas exist the Lokantarika-niraya (SA.ii.442f.; DhsA.297f).
In each Cakkavála are four Regent Gods (Cattáro Mahárájá) (AA.i.439).
A sun can illuminate only one Cakkavála; the rays of light from the Buddha's body can illuminate all the Cakkaválas (AA.i.440).