The Geography of the Puranas c11.s1.1

c11.s1.1

The old name of the Upper Gangetic Basin, 'The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh' was not too ugly for use as a label, for it suggested some of the significant disunities typical of this area, though there is enough fundamental unity for it all to be included in a single region, even if we extend its eastern limits down to the Bihar valley—to include at least Patna and the confluences of the Sone and the Gaṇḍak; and its north-western limits to the valley of the Ghaggar which lies beween the Yamunā and the Sutlej.