Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c5.s2.15

c5.s2.15

⁶⁰ i. 1. 2. 11-12 (Vasiṣṭha, i. 14-15). According to Śaṅkhalikhita, Brahmavarcasa lay to the east of Sindhu and Sauvīra, to the south of the Himavat, to the west of Kāmpilya and to the north of the Pāriyātra, while Paiṭhinasi seems to refer to the same holy land as stretching as far as the Himavat, the Kumārī, the Sindhu and Vaitaraṇī (i.e. Visaraṇī, etc.) and the land of the sun-rise (Sircar, op. cit., p. 172, note 3).