Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c4.1

c4.1

At the outset, I must express my sincere thanks to the Syndicate of the University of Madras for inviting me to deliver the Sir William Meyer Endowment Lectures in History for the year 1965-66. When the invitation reached me about the beginning of October 1965, I remembered, with a sense of pride and diffidence, that my teacher, the late Professor D. R. Bhandarkar, had delivered, under the same endowment, his famous lectures (*Some Aspects of Indian Culture*, Madras, 1940) quarter of a century ago.