Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s3.6

c6.s3.6

With the exclusion of the Jambu-dvīpa, the divisions of the other island-continents were all named after the grandsons of Priyavrata, to whom they were allotted.⁴³ The divisions of the Jambu-dvīpa will be discussed later. It may however be noted here that the names Bhadrāśva and Ketumāla, which are applied to parts of the Jambu-dvīpa in the seven-continent theory, are explained by the Purāṇas as territories allotted to two of Agnīdhra's sons of those names mentioned above.