The Geography of the Puranas c7.s5.36

c7.s5.36

In the Purāṇas the descriptions of Meru, its location and extent and the great mountain-ranges associated with it as well as the regions which are bounded by these ranges and their sub-divisions are very much similar. The Agni and Brahma Purāṇas are word for word the same as the Viṣṇu and the Kurma, Matsya, Mārkaṇḍeya, and Vāyu present many passages common to them and the Viṣṇu, or to one another. The Vāyu, as usual goes more fully into details. The Bhāgavata differs in its nomenclature of subordinate details from all, and is followed by the Padma. The other Purāṇas either omit the subject or refer to it only very briefly. The Mahābhārata (Bhīṣma Parva) presents an account which is essentially the same, and many of the stanzas are common to it and the different Purāṇas.