The Geography of the Puranas c6.8
The Geography of the Purāṇas c6.8
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c6.8
The Bhūmi Khaṇḍa defers any description of the earth until its close, filling up 127 chapters with legends of a very mixed character, some ancient and common to other Purāṇas, but the greater part, peculiar to itself, illustrative of the tīrthas or essential places of pilgrimage.