Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva c6.160

Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahābhārata: Upāyana Parva c6.160

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c6.160

Tryakṣa (M.B., II, 47, 15). Not much is known about the tribe. They are placed in the north-east foot of the Tortoise in the *Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa*¹⁵⁷ and are known there as Trinetras. But the arrangement of the countries with India taken in the shape of a tortoise is purely arbitrary. Is it upper Chitral called Turikho?¹⁵⁸

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Mahābhārata — Sanskrit
Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit