The Geography of the Puranas c17: Chapter V
The Geography of the Purāṇas c17
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Chapter V
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⁹ Omitted in the Bombay edition.
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¹⁰ In the Bombay edition the course of the river is given as: From Saṅkhakūṭa-to-Vṛṣabha-Vatsa-Nīla, Kapiñjala-Indra Nīla-Mahā-Nīla-Hemaśṛṅga-Śvet-Sunāga-Satśṛṅga-Puṣkara-Dvirāja-Varāha-Mayūra-Jārudhi (having only one summit)-Tṛśṛṅga-Virudh.
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¹¹ Quoted from the Vāyu Purāṇa (Bombay edn.), Ch. 45.
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¹² V. Vitkovich, *A Tour of Soviet Uzbekistan* (Moscow, 1954), p. 115.
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¹³ *Ibid.*, p. 68.
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¹⁴ Luknitsky, op. cit.
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¹⁵ Known as Afrosiab or Marcaṇḍa.
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¹⁶ Or the 'Yenisei' scrap—cf. L. W. Lyde, *The Continent of Asia* (Macmillan, 193), p. 263). The Uttarakuru region may be equated with the 'Tobol-Yenisei Lowland.'
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¹⁷ The land of the Khalluq and Toghazghuz according to the Arab and Persian writers.
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¹ *Vāyu Purāṇa*, Ch. 42, 41-57.
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² *Srednyaya Azia, Uchebanaya Karta; Masshtab, 1:1,500,000*, (Moscow, 1954).
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³ *Ḥudūd* (6, 10).
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⁴ P. Luknitsky, *Soviet Tajikistan*, p. 209.
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⁵ *Ibid.*, pp. 206-7.
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⁶ *Ḥudūd*, p. 115.
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⁷ *Vāyu Purāṇa*, Ch. 44, 1-24.
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⁸ *Ibid.*, Ch. 44.
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⁹ *Ibid.*, Ch. 44.
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¹⁰ *Ibid.*
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¹ *Vāyu Purāṇa*, Ch. 42, 1-24.
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² *Ibid.*, Ch. 35, 8.
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³ *Ibid.*, Ch. 36, 18-19 (in the Bombay edn. 'Sauvīra' is substituted for 'Sudhīra': Vṛṣabha for Kṛṣṇa Ruc Aka; for Savindhu and Veṇūman for Reṇumān.
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⁴ *Ibid.*, Ch. 42, 12-24.
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⁵ *Ibid.*, Ch. 35.
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⁶ Huen Tsang, *Life* (Beal), p. 99.
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⁷ *Ḥudūd*, p. 70.
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⁸ The Bombay edn. says 'Bhagwatī like Lakṣmī' which appears to be correct.
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⁹ *Vāyu Purāṇa*, Ch. 37, 1-15.
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¹⁰ *Ibid.*, Ch. 37, 16-21.
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¹¹ *Ibid.*, Ch. 39.
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¹² 'Hundred' appears to be a misprint. It should be about a 'thousand'.
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¹³ *Vāyu Purāṇa*, Ch. 39, 28-30.
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- Vāyupurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit