The Geography of the Puranas (The Geography of the Purāṇas)
Purāṇic cosmography and the dvīpas; the seven dvīpas read as real regions; Jambudvīpa's mountains and rivers; the janapadas of Bhāratavarṣa, mapped.
- Language
- English
- Author
- S. M. Ali
- Extent
- 1,460 passages, 82,932 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · New Delhi: People's Publishing House 1966; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (S. M. Ali); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 4 parts
- c2 Foreword — 4 parts
- c3 Preface — 11 parts
- c4 Contents — 3 parts
- c5 List of Maps and Diagrams — 7 parts
- c6 Introduction — 90 parts
- c7 Chapter I Sources of Puranic Geography — 6 parts
- c8 Chapter IV. The River System of the Puranas — 256 parts
- c9 Chapter VII Regions of Jambu Dwipa: Bhadravarsa — 59 parts
- c10 Chapter VIII Bharatavarsa : Physical — 101 parts
- c11 Chapter X Bharatavarsa: Janapadas or Communities — 9 parts
- c12 Chapter XI Bharatavarsa: Janapadas, Towns and Routes (Geographical Analysis) — 116 parts
- c13 Chapter XIII Cosmogony, Cosmology and Cosmography — 9 parts
- c14 Notes and References — 3 parts
- c15 Chapter II — 36 parts
- c16 Chapter III — 4 parts
- c17 Chapter V — 32 parts
- c18 Chapter VI — 5 parts
- c19 Chapter IX — 11 parts
- c20 Chapter XII — 19 parts
- c21 Appendix — 1 part
- c22 Select Bibliography — 3 parts
- c23 Index — 58 parts