The Geography of the Puranas c7.s5.82
The Geography of the Purāṇas c7.s5.82
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c7.s5.82
He was bright like twelve Suns. There are several places of Kārtikeya, full of ghosts, etc. In the beautiful hinterland of the Himālaya mountain there is Kārtikeya's playground named Pāṇḍu Sila. It is said that on the beautiful eastern land is the residing place of saints which scholars call as Kalapagrāma. In the Himālaya are the āśramas of Mārkaṇḍeya, Vasiṣṭa, Bhārata, Nala, Viśvāmitra, Uddalaka, etc., and hundreds and thousands of āśramas of Ṛṣis. There are several residing places of saints. Yakṣa Gandharvas roam there and several low-class people also live there. That mountain is rich in several minerals. Several types of creatures live there. Thousands of rivers flow from that mountain.*