The Geography of the Puranas c8.212

c8.212

We shall first of all discuss (d) above, since we know what the Purāṇas mean by the 'Western River' by virtue of its position with respect to Meru on the one hand, and the bounding ranges, the Nila and the Niṣadha, on the other. We have one more feature which helps us in this case, i.e. the Caspian Sea or the ‘Western Sea’ of the Purāṇas in relation to Jambū Dwipa. Statement (a) above is supplementary to (d) and will, therefore, be considered as a corollary of the latter.