Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature
The dvīpa and varṣa systems, Bhāratavarṣa's divisions, the kūrma-vibhāga, and the regional lists of the Purāṇas, epics and astronomical texts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- D. C. Sircar
- Extent
- 1,630 passages, 75,343 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: Indian Studies Past & Present 1967; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and… · In copyright (D. C. Sircar †1984); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature — 13 parts
- c2 Contents — 4 parts
- c3 Plates — 1 part
- c4 Preface — 11 parts
- c5 Evidence of the Vedic Literature — 5 parts
- c6 India and the World in Epico-Puranic, Buddhist and Jain Traditions — 5 parts
- c7 Lecture III: Indian Sub-continent and its Neighbourhood — 6 parts
- c8 Appendices — 5 parts
- c9 Index — 454 parts
- c10 Addenda et Corrigenda — 90 parts