The Geography of the Puranas c8.80
The Geography of the Purāṇas c8.80
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c8.80
(i) The snow-belt from the Pāmīrs (Meru) which runs towards the south covers the Northern Himālayan region including the Karakoram massif. So far it had remained one continuous broad belt of ice and snow. As it moved further towards the south—somewhere north of Kailāsa—it divided itself into three comparatively narrower belts, each covering a distinct high range which runs across Tibet from north-west to east-south-east. These ranges are, Tanglha, Aling Kangri and Nychenthangla which correspond to the Gaura, Hiranya Śṛṅga and Soma¹¹ of the Purāṇas.