The Geography of the Puranas c6.7
The Geography of the Purāṇas c6.7
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Padma Purāṇa is a voluminous work divided into five books or khaṇḍas. The first two books, the Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa and the Bhūmi Khaṇḍa deal with the creation and the description of the earth respectively. The early chapters of Sṛṣṭi Khaṇḍa deal with cosmogony in the same style and often in the same words as the Viṣṇu Purāṇa. There are, however, additions characteristic of this Purāṇa, dealing with the virtues of the Puṣkara lake (near Ajmer) as a place of pilgrimage.