Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c5.44

Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c5.44

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c5.44

Another very important point which should not escape our attention is the adjective Uttara used in connection with the Ṛṣikas (Uttarān-ṛṣikān, II, 24, 24), which denotes here the sense of superiority or greatness and which is an exact equivalence of the Ta Yüe-Chï as opposed to the Sieou Yüe-Chï or little Yüe-Chï. After all the Sanskrit geographers were not so fantastic or ignorant as it is generally supposed.

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit