The Geography of the Puranas c7.s5.52
The Geography of the Purāṇas c7.s5.52
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The great Karakoram complex lies between the Tarim and the Indus basins, west of the political frontier of Tibet. It lies roughly between 70°E and 79°E, its physical limits being the Hunza-Gilgit valley in the west and the Nubra-Shyok valley in the east, and its northern limit is rather the parapet above the Tarim basin than the Shimshal-Shaksgan depression, while a 'straight' line that can be drawn through Gilgit, Ronda and Khapalu, never above 10,000 feet makes an admirable southern limit. The focus of this complex is the Boltoro glacier, from which apart from K2 (28,250') ten other peaks radiate at heights between 23,000' and 28,000' and no equal area, even of the Himālayas can rival this mass of glacier-mantled giants.