The Geography of the Puranas c10.12

c10.12

(a) The major rivers have always been the main lines of communication in the country particularly in the Great Northern Plains and as man had to depend on them for communication as well as perennial water supply, all settlements tended to occupy a site on or as near the high banks of the rivers as possible. These were the areas which have been frequented by man for a long time. Hence the accounts of features in the vicinity of river valleys should be fairly correct.