Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s3.2

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c6.s3.2

⁴¹ The Matsya and Padma Purāṇas, followed by Al-Bīrūnī, mention the dvīpas in the following order : (1) Jambu, (2) Śāka, (3) Kuśa, (4) Krauñca, (5) Śālmali (6) Gomeda (for Plakṣa), and (7) Puṣkara. See Matsya, Chapters 122-23 ; Padma, Svarga-khaṇḍa, Chapter 4 ; Sachau, Alberuni’s India, Vol. i, p. 236. As regards Gomeda, Raychaudhuri draws our attention to Ptolemy’s Komedai in Central Asia (Stud. Ind. Ant., 1958, pp. 67-68).

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Padmapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit