Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s4.9

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³⁸ The same shape is indicated by Hiuen-tsang who compares it to a half-moon with its broad side to the north (Watters, On Yuan Chwang’s Travels in India, Vol. i, p. 140). Another Chinese author speaks of India’s shape as narrow towards the south and broad towards the north (Cunningham’s Ancient Geography of India, ed. Majumdar Sastri, p. 12). Nīlakaṇṭha (on the Mahābhārata, vi. 6. 3-5) calls it trikoṇa or triangular.