Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s3.19

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c6.s3.19

⁴⁷ Raychaudhuri rightly observes, "the description of the dvīpas in the extant Purāṇas marks them out as things of fairyland comparable to the Isles of the Blessed or the Spanish El Dorado. The very conception of the earth as an aggregate of such concentric islands surrounded by seas is pure mythology" (Stud. Ind. Ant., 1958, p. 68).

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