The Geography of the Puranas c8.198

c8.198

The two mountains Candrakānta and Sūryakānta can be easily identified with the help of the statement that *none* of the rivers which rise from them falls into the great Northern River (the Bhadrasomā or the Irtysh, para 25). The only mountains in this region of which the drainage does not reach the Irtysh are the Tarbagatai and Jingar-Ala Tau mountains. They are, therefore, the mountains referred to in para 25 of statement (e) above.