[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Historical geography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography) › [Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967) › c4.1 # Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c4.1 Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c4.1 - **Language:** English ### [c4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.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. - [Previous: c3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c3.1) - [Next: c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c4.2) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.geography.sircar-1967.c4.1) · Pramāṇa