Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s1.10

c6.s1.10

That the conception of the earth was not quite intelligible even to the authors of the epico-Puranic sections on cosmography seems to be clear from a statement that it is useless for men to offer arguments to prove or disprove anything in the description of the earth comprising the island continents, etc., that conceptions which are beyond the scope of human thinking should not be the subject of any argument and that such matters beyond the sphere of nature should be taken for granted.⁷