The Geography of the Puranas c10.102

c10.102

The Madhyadeśa or central region (see the relief map of India) covered approximately the upper and middle Gangetic basin and the Yamunā-Cambal catchment area up to and including the Sone valley on the east, Sutlej on the north-west, Himālayas on the north, Āravallis on the west and the Satpura in the south. The Northern (or rather north-western) region comprised the whole of the Indus Basin including that of the river Kābul up to the Hindūkush. Its southern boundary may be taken as the River Sutlej. West of the Āravallis and south of the Sutlej up to and including the Baluchistān ranges on the west and the northern portion of the western coastal plain up to the Tāpti was the western region of the Purāṇics. The eastern region extended from the eastern limit of the central region up to the Assam hills from east to west and from the Himālayas to the eastern coastal plain, up to Mahendri. The rest of the peninsula south of the Satpuras was the southern region of Bhāratavarṣa.