The Geography of the Puranas c7.s5.10
The Geography of the Purāṇas c7.s5.10
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c7.s5.10
The regions which broadly satisfy conditions (1), (3), (5) and (7) above are the Scandinavian lands, Finland, Northern European Russia and Siberia, since these lands occur in the same latitudes as those of Uttara Kuru. They contain numerous lakes, support nomadic people who live by hunting and are washed by the Arctic waters or the waters of the cold current which flows past the Bering Sea along the eastern coast of Siberia.