The Geography of the Puranas c8.174
The Geography of the Purāṇas c8.174
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c8.174
The last paragraph under this head, i.e., (b) above dismisses summarily the northern regions lying beyond Śṛṅgavān. In two or three sentences it gives a cross-section of the vast region stretching to the Arctic. In it we get a glimpse of the lakes of the north, the coniferous forest belt and the Tundras. As ‘nobody could go there’, a detailed account of the regions was considered by the Purāṇics as unnecessary and superfluous. However, in a later chapter (summarised in (e) above) some details of small areas are given in a generalised manner.