Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s1.1

c7.s1.1

We have seen above how the land bounded by the Himalayas in the north and the sea in the east, south and west was generally called Bhārata-varṣa, but that sometimes the names Jambu-dvīpa (of which the Bhārata-varṣa was the ninth part according to the Purāṇas) and Sāgarasaṃvṛta-dvīpa or Kumārī-dvīpa (which was likewise the ninth part of the Bhārata-varṣa according to the Purāṇas) were applied to the same region.