Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c6.s5.24

c6.s5.24

West—1. Bāhlīka ; 2. Saurāṣṭra ; 3. Candracitra ; 4. hills called Śiśira ; 5. a sea ; 6. Muracī-pattana ; 7. Jaṭāpura ; 8. Ava ti ; 9. Aṅgalepa ; 10. Mount Somagiri at Sindhusāgara-saṅgama ; 11. Pāriyātra and the Gandharva land ; 12. Mount Vajra ; 13. Mount Cakravat in a quarter of the sea, where lived the demon Pañcajana from whom Kṛṣṇa obtained his conch-sell called Pāñcajanya; 14. Mount Varāha ; 15. Prāgjyotiṣapura where the demon Naraka lived ; 16. Mount Sauvarṇa protected by Indra ; and 17. Mount Sāvarṇi-meru or Ast-ācala (the sun-set mountain) where there is Varuṇa’s abode.