Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c2: Contents
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c2
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Contents
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*Lecture I : Evidence of the Vedic Literature*
1. Cosmography and Cosmogony 9
2. Geographical Ideas 14
3. Mountains and Rivers 21
4. Peoples and their Countries 25
5. Villages, Towns, etc. 31
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*Lecture II : India and the World in the Epico-Puranic, Buddhist and Jain Traditions*
1. Date and Nature of the Epico-Puranic Traditions 33
2. Conception of the Earth of Four Continents 38
3. Theory of the Seven-Continent Earth 47
4. Jambu-dvīpa and Bhārata-varṣa 51
5. Knowledge of Countries outside India 59
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*Lecture III : Indian Subcontinent and its Neighbourhood*
1. Bhārata-varṣa and its Ninth Subdivision 69
2. Puranic List of Janapadas 71
3. Puranic List of Rivers 83
4. Kūrma-vibhāga or Kūrma-niveśa 90
5. Jain Lists of Janapadas 98
6. Medieval Writers on Cosmography and Geography 102
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*Appendices* I. Extracts from *The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea* 111 II. Extracts from Ptolemy's Geography
(a) India within the Ganges (Intra Gangem) 121
(b) India beyond the Ganges 137
(c) Some Central Asian Territories
1. Baktriane 143
2. Sogdiane 144
3. The Land of the Sakai or Nomadic Śaka 146
4. Scythia or Śakasthāna within the Imaos 146
5. Scythia beyond the Imaos 148
6. Serike 149 III. Indian Teritories in Hiuen-tsang's *Si-yu-ki* 151 IV. Extracts from Al-Bīrūnī's *Kitābul Hind* 154 V. Cosmography and Geography in Inscriptions 161