Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s4.62

c6.s4.62

It will be seen that this list offers 45 names of islands in place of the 32 names of the Tiloyapaṇṇatti of an earlier date and that, in the later list, 22 new names have been coined out of 11 names by suffixing the expressions vara and varāvabhāsa to the latter. There are also numerous fantastic details about all the islands and oceans which have little to do with real geography. But thanks are due to the Jain writers for their power of imagination and passion for useless description in which they appear to have excelled the Puranic writers.