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# The Geography of the Puranas c17: Chapter V

The Geography of the Purāṇas c17

- **Language:** English

### Chapter V

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⁹ Omitted in the Bombay edition.

### [c17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.ali-1966.c17.2)

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.'

### [c17.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.ali-1966.c17.9)

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.

### [c17.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.ali-1966.c17.28)

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.

## Cites (1)

- [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.1.42.41) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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