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Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.117

Cosmography and Geography in Early Indian Literature c9.117

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c9.117

Kunk (Kunkan, South Konkan), territorry 155 Kunkan (Konkan), territory 157 Kuṅkuma, mountain 108 kuṅkuma, product 103 Kuntala, people 80, 103, 106, 162; see Gondalai 132; same as Upahālaka 104 Kunti, people 31; branch of the Yādavas 72 Kunti, river 85 Kunti-Bhoja, same as Kunti, people 72; located in the southern region 64 Kunyata, mistake for Kulūta, people 96 Kūpā, same as Kopā, river 88 Kupatha, people 67n; dwelling on the Pāvanī 56, 90 Ku-p’i-shuang-na (Goviṣāṇa), territory 152 Kuraha, locality 155 Kurana, territory 153 Kurāṅga, territory 107 Kurata, people 97 Kūrma, from of Viṣṇu in the Bhārata-varṣa 42 Kūrma-cakra 91 Kūrma Purāṇa 70 Kūrmavibhāga (Kūrmaniveśa) 35, 54, 90 Kurnool-Cuddapah region 80, 153 Kurram, river 49n Kuru, descendant of Bharata and Puru 18n, 26 Kuru, ruler of a part of the Jambu-dvīpa 48 Kuru, class of people of the Plakṣa-dvīpa 49 Kuru, country and people 15, 25-26, 35n, 71, 89, 91 and n, 99, 101, 108-09; called Dakṣiṇa-Kuru 31; island-continent, also called Uttara-Kuru 39n, 63, 82, 96 Kuru-jāṅgala, country and people 71; see Brahmavedi 107 Krukṣetra, locality 16n, 17n, 18, 26, 32, 72-73, 91n, 108-09; see Brahmavedi 106; see Vinaśana 105