Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c7.s6.28

c7.s6.28

Kalhaṇa’s Rājatarangiṇī (12th century) gives a good deal of valuable information on the topography of the Kashmir region of Utarāpatha. The thirteenth century commentator Yaśodhara, in his Jayamaṅgalā on the Kāmasūtra, gives information of the following type—1. Vaṅga lying to the east of the Lauhitya ; 2. Aṅga lying to the east of the Mahānadī ; 3. Kaliṅga lying to the south of the Gauḍa-viṣaya ; 4. Vāhlika-deśa=Uttarāpatha ; 5. Avanti=Ujjayinī- deśa=Apara-Mālava ; 6. Aparānta-deśa near the Paścima-samudra ; 7. Lāṭa-viṣaya lying to the west of Apara-Mālava ; 8. Dakṣiṇāpatha lying to the south of the Narmadā ; 9. Andhra-viṣaya lying to the east of Karṇāṭa-viṣaya in Dakṣiṇāpatha ; 10. Mahārāṣṭra-viṣaya lying between the Narmadā and the Karṇāṭa-viṣaya ; 11. Draviḍa-viṣaya lying to the south of the Karṇāṭa-viṣaya ; 12. Vanavāsa-viṣaya lying to the east of Koṅkaṇa-viṣaya ; 13. Mālava-Pūrva=Mālava ; 14. Strīrājya lying to the west of the Vajravanta country ; 15. Nagara=Paṭali- putra ; 16. Ābhīra-deśa=Śrīkaṇṭha-Kurukṣetr-ādi-bhūmi ; etc.³¹