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The Geography of the Puranas c20: Chapter XII

The Geography of the Purāṇas c20

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Chapter XII

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The number in brackets which follow a statement pertains to the number of paragraph of chapter 48 of the *Vāyu Purāṇa* (Calcutta edn.).

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¹ Three times three thousand 'yojanas', has been interpreted by many scholars as '9,000 yojanas'.

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² *Asiatic Researches*, Vol. VIII, p. 302.

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¹ *RV*, X. 130.

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² *RV*, X. 72, 2 (Griffith's tr.), p. 496.

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³ H. W. Wallis, *The Cosmology of the Rigveda*, p. 17.

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⁴ *Bṛhad Up.* I, 2, 1-3.

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⁵ *RV*, I. 67, 3; VI. 7, 7.

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⁶ *RV*, VI. 47, 4; VI. 72, 2.

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⁷ *RV*, I. 115, 1.

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⁸ *RV*, VIII. 3. 6; 36, 4; 78, 5.

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⁹ *Śvet. Up.*, III. 2; VI. 9.

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¹⁰ *Ait. Up.*, II, 1, 2-9.

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¹¹ *Ait. Br.*, V. 32 (Keith's *Rgvedic Brāhmaṇas*, p. 256).

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¹² *Kauśit. Br.*, VI. 1.

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¹³ The first book of the Moses called *Genesis*, Old Testament, Chapter I, Paras 1-31 (extracts).

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¹⁴ 'Ocean' here signified a huge aggregate of molten or gaseous matter.

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¹⁵ *Viṣṇu Purāṇa* (Wilson. Tr.), Bk. V, p. 34.

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CHAPTER XIII

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