The Geography of the Puranas c6.65
The Geography of the Purāṇas c6.65
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c6.65
The Purāṇas faithfully represent the ideas regarding the origin of things and their distribution which were universally believed in ancient India. But the interpolations and modifications which subsequently crept into them, their inculcation of the worship of particular deities, the incongruous combination of a creator with the independent evolution of matter, and the deification of metaphor and mysticism, led to several incongruities and much disfigurement of narrative. It is, however, possible to read the ideas which the ‘master’ intended to convey to the ‘pupil’. Here are a few examples: