The Geography of the Puranas c18.5

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¹ The Nāgarasaṃvṛtaḥ of Alberuni is obviously a copyist's mistake (Alberuni's *Indica*, 1, 295). 2 Mark. p. 57. 3 According to the Skanda Purāṇa, Kumārika Khaṇḍa extended from only the Mahendra mountain to the Pariyātra (Kumārika Khaṇḍa, 39, 113); according to the Garuda Purāṇa, however, it was bounded on the east by the Kiratas, on the west by the Yavanas, on the south by the Andhras and on the north by Turuskas (55.6). 4 V. A. Smith, *Early History of India*, 4th edn., p. 491. 5 Cunningham, *Ancient Geography of India* (Calcutta, 1924). 6 Varāhamihira is supposed to have adopted the tradition earlier recorded by Paras'ara in his Paras'aratantra. See, Kern's edn. of *Bṛhatsaṃhitā* of Varāha, p. 32. 7 B. C. Law, *Geography of Early Buddhism*, Intro. 8 *Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa*, 36, 64.