The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s12.132

c5.s12.132

Uttarakuru—The northern portion of Garwal and Hūnadesa, where the river Mandākinī and the Chaitraratha-kānana are situated (*Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, viii, 14, 4, *Mbh*, Vana, ch 145). It originally included the countries beyond the Himalaya It is the Ottorakorra of Ptolemy. Lassen places it to the east of Kashgar (Griffith’s *Rāmāyaṇa*, vol. IV, p. 424). Tibet (*Mbh.*, Bhīshma, ch. 7) and Eastern Turkestan were included in Uttara-kuru (*Rāmāyaṇa*, Kishk., ch. 43). It was situated in the Himalaya (*Jātaka*, Cam. ed., V, p. 167). According to Mr. Bunsen the slopes of the Belur Tagh, a mountain range in Central Asia in the high land of the Pamir in which the great rivers of that region have got their source, are the Uttara-Kuru of the Aryan Hindus. The Belur Tagh is also called the Kiunlun; it forms the northern boundary of Western Tibet and is covered with perpetual snow. It is also called Mustagh, Karakorum, Hindu-kush and Tsunlung (Balfour’s *Cyclopaedia of India*, (s.v. Belur Tagh). Uttara-Kuru was also called Harivarsha. The *Brahmāṇḍa P.* (ch. 48) places it far to the north of India, and mentions that it was bounded on the north by the ocean (*v.* 53). The name perhaps exists in Korea which appertained to the Uttara-Kuru-dvīpa.