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# Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt

Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jaina cosmography side by side: world-systems, dvīpas, Meru, Bhāratavarṣa's regions and peoples, the heavens and hells, from Purāṇas, Abhidharma and Jaina canon.

- **Language:** German
- **Date:** 1885–1964 CE
- **Author:** [Willibald Kirfel](https://indike.org/pramana/person/kirfel)
- **Extent:** 3,177 passages, 162,588 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · Bonn & Leipzig: Kurt Schroeder 1920; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Willibald Kirfel †1964); published before 1931: public…

## Contents

- [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c1) — 3 parts
- [c2 Die Kosmographie der Inder](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c2) — 9 parts
- [c3 Meinem Lehrer Herrn Geheimen Regierungsrat Prof. Dr. Hermann Jacobi zu seinem 70. Geburtstage in Verehrung und Dankbarkeit zugeeignet](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c3) — 5 parts
- [c4 Vorwort](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c4) — 6 parts
- [c5 Inhaltsverzeichnis](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c5) — 3 parts
- [c6 Einleitung](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c6) — 7 parts
- [c7 1. Abschnitt. Das kosmographische System der Brāhmanen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c7) — 10 parts
- [c8 2. Abschnitt. Die Kosmographie der Buddhisten](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c8) — 27 parts
- [c9 3. Abschnitt. Die Kosmographie der Jaina](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c9) — 23 parts
- [c10 Nachtrag](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c10) — 12 parts
- [c11 Anhang. Raum-, Zeit- und Zahlengrössen](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c11) — 2 parts
- [c12 Register](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c12) — 168 parts
- [c13 Berichtigungen und Zusätze](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.kirfel-1920.c13) — 50 parts

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