Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s5.15

c7.s5.15

In connection with the fanciful numbers of villages mentioned as pertaining to the Aryan territories of the bigger list, it may be noted that we have seen elsewhere²⁵ how territorial names like Gaṅgavāḍi—96,000, Banavāsi—12,000, Belvola—300, Kuknūr—30, etc., were popular especially in the Karṇāṭa country and how a similar list of countries with the conventional number of grāmas contained therein is found in Chapter 39 (verses 27ff.) of the Kumārikā-khaṇḍa Sub-section of the Māheśvara-khaṇḍa Section of the Skanda Purāṇa.