The Geography of the Puranas c7.s1.6
The Geography of the Purāṇas c7.s1.6
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The three Vedas (the Yajurveda, the Sāmaveda and the Atharvaveda), the Brāhmaṇas, the Āraṇyakas, the Upaniṣads and the Kalpa Sūtras belong to a later period and were composed during several centuries which followed the compilation of the Ṛgvedic hymns. Like the Ṛgveda they too are not geographical treatises, but some of them like the Atharvaveda, the Brāhmaṇas and the Sūtras contain geographical material (mentioned below) which in one form or the other found its way into the Purāṇas.