The Geography of the Puranas c9.48
The Geography of the Purāṇas c9.48
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c9.48
(ii) The Kumuñja mountain lying east (rather north-east) of the Sitāntā mountain is full of waterfalls and caves. ‘On its summit there are eight big cities (aṭhipuras) belonging to demons’. The Demons signify powerful and warlike people of alien races; in this case probably Tartars, of the adjacent highlands north of Kashghar and Akṣu who live by plundering the agricultural settlement on the basin below or robbing the caravans on the Great East-West routes.