The Geography of the Puranas c8.157

c8.157

Having fixed the position of the Northern Lake (Son-Kul) it is possible, with the help of a good large-scale topographical map of the Syr Daria-Naryn basin to locate the various mountains and ranges which occur in the Purāṇic description of the course of the River Bhadrasomā given in (d) above and, with reference to these, to find the relative position of others mentioned in (a) above. It should, however, be understood that wherever the words ‘the river falls on’ such and such mountain occur in the Purāṇic accounts, they mean that ‘the river receives a tributary from’ that mountain.