Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s1.7
Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s1.7
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⁵ Cf.. R.G. Bhandarkar, *E. Hist. Dec.*, pp. 11ff. ; Raychaudhuri, *PHAI*, 1938, pp. 271-72 ; Sircar, *Stud. Geog. Anc. Med. Ind.*, p. 111. Pandaea is said to have been the daughter and wife of Herakles who made her the queen of the southern part of India. See R. C. Majumdar, *The Classical Accounts of India*, pp. 222-23, 456. The Aśokan records also mention Sātiya, probably the Śāntika of the Purāṇas.