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# The Geography of the Puranas c20: Chapter XII

The Geography of the Purāṇas c20

- **Language:** English

### 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

## Cites (8)

- [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.130) — Sanskrit
- [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.1) — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit
- [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.1.2.1) — Sanskrit
- [Śvetāśvataropaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.svetasvatara.3.2) — Śvetāśvatara, Sanskrit
- [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit
- [Aitareyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.aitreya) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit
- [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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