The Geography of the Puranas c9.50
The Geography of the Purāṇas c9.50
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c9.50
(iv) On the Veṇumāna mountain which according to our identification lies near the southern border of the Tarim basin are the ‘cities of scholars’. The names of these big cities are not given but the names of their ‘owners’ are mentioned: On the Veṇumāna mountain there are three cities of scholars which are fifty yojanas long and thirty yojanas in breadth. Powerful like Indra, three scholars named Uluka, Romesh and Mahā Netra are their owners'. Obviously this refers to three settlements in the Khotan-Kerya-Charchan region of the Tarim basin.