The Geography of the Puranas c7.s1.5

c7.s1.5

Facts of human geography, i.e., those pertaining to man’s adjustment to nature and their ideas and actions have been elaborately and precisely dealt with in the Ṛgveda and are intimately associated with religious ritual. Every human activity related to the earth and its resources, i.e., agriculture, animal husbandry, irrigation, industries, means of transport, houses and settlements, diet, clothing and social relations, finds a suitable place in the sacred book and provides a key to corresponding accounts in the Purāṇas and other ancient works. The Ṛgveda is the ultimate source of all the knowledge which was embodied in subsequent literature including the Purāṇas.